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A new report has found a decrease in the prosecution of drug cases referred by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
In the first half of Fiscal Year 2024, the prosecution of drug-related cases referred by the DEA was down 6 percent from the previous fiscal year, and down by one-third from Fiscal 2019, during the Trump administration, according to a report by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse of Syracuse University.
The report, released Wednesday, found a 50% decrease in drug case referrals from the DEA in 20 years.
In Fiscal 2004, there were 18,132 drug-related case filings. In Fiscal 2019 there were 13,104 cases. And so far in Fiscal 2024, there have been 4,236 new prosecutions that resulted from cases referred by the DEA. If that rate continues, TRAC estimates the annual total of prosecutions for this fiscal year will be just over 8,700 — which would be the lowest since 1995, and the second-lowest rate since 1986 when drug data first began being tracked.
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