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"We found that there were 334 convictions in the last fiscal year, that's up slightly from the year before," Long explained. "But what happened is that prior to the pandemic, they had been declining.
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According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University in New York, Illinois' three judicial districts are no longer in the top ten judicial districts of the nation for corruption convictions.
A recently released report from TRAC found that official corruption convictions nationwide have decreased by 49% from 2003 to 2022.
Susan Long is the co-founder of TRAC, and told the I-Team official corruption cases are some of the most important types of prosecutions.
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