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Despite rhetoric, gun prosecutions plummet under Obama
The Washington Times ^ | July 23, 2014 | Kelly Riddell

Posted on 07/23/2014 7:19:47 PM PDT by jazusamo

While President Obama decries gun violence and presses for more laws to restrict ownership, his Justice Department has prosecuted 25 percent fewer cases referred by the main law enforcement agency charged with reducing firearms violence across the country, a computer analysis of U.S. prosecution data shows.

Federal prosecutors brought a total of 5,082 gun violation cases in 2013 recommended by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, compared with 6,791 during the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency in 2008, according to data obtained from the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys.

The 2013 totals represent a 42 percent decline from the record number of 8,752 prosecutions of ATF cases brought by the Justice Department in 2004 under Mr. Bush, according to the data.

Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, regarded as one of the premier researchers on federal prosecution performances and trends, analyzed the data at the request of The Washington Times.

U.S. attorneys have been slowing gun prosecutions even further, with 2,598 brought in the first seven months of this fiscal year. The pace of activity puts the Justice Department on track to prosecute the fewest ATF cases since 2000, well before the drug gang wars in Mexico sharply increased violence on both sides of the border.

“We have this irony. The Obama administration, which is asking for more in the way of gun regulations — in terms of increased background checks for private sales and at gun shows — is actually prosecuting less of the gun laws already on the books,” said Robert Cottrol, a gun control historian at George Washington University. “For a lot of people, there’s more ideological cache harassing Bubba at the gun show than getting a handle on gun crime.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bandlist; banglist; doj; guncontrol; obama
So the 0bama/Holder administration doesn't enforce existing law, they're only interested in gun control.
1 posted on 07/23/2014 7:19:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
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2 posted on 07/23/2014 7:23:42 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: jazusamo

Violent criminals are a Democrat constituency. Gun control is the objective. The Democrats couldn’t care less about crime.


3 posted on 07/23/2014 7:28:56 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: jazusamo

Example #197 of spend more and do less, from this administration.


4 posted on 07/23/2014 7:32:12 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: jazusamo

Yup. Gun crime benefits their cause (disarmament), so of course prosecutions are down.

Of they’re just that incompetent.


5 posted on 07/23/2014 7:33:01 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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what is the racial breakdown of those prosecuted for gun violations as compared to prior years before obama/holder?


6 posted on 07/23/2014 7:37:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Oh. Good. So there's nothing to worry about then, eh, Washington Times?

Get lost.

7 posted on 07/23/2014 7:41:07 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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If they enforce the laws, they may convict an illegal alien or one of “Holder’s People”.

A violent neighborhood wracked by gang violence is one that is cheaply kept down, with little Federal expenditure, plus it makes great propaganda for more gun control laws.


8 posted on 07/23/2014 7:45:42 PM PDT by DBrow
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Exactly. It’s not about guns, it’s about control.


9 posted on 07/23/2014 7:57:55 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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Yep, no one is going to print that, it’s not PC.


10 posted on 07/23/2014 8:15:22 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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11 posted on 07/23/2014 8:17:19 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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Whoa FRiend, the WT is exposing it.


12 posted on 07/23/2014 8:22:11 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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Joe Hogsett just stepped down as US attorney in Indiana and is presumed to be positioning himself for a run for Mayor of Indy.

Gun crimes have soared there by Holders Peeps and Hogsett has been MIA on prosecutions


13 posted on 07/23/2014 8:24:21 PM PDT by digger48
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So they are. I stand corrected.

Apologies to the WT.

14 posted on 07/23/2014 8:31:06 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: digger48

Is it believed the crime in Indy is related to the crime in Chicago? I don’t know, just asking if there’s a link


15 posted on 07/23/2014 10:00:44 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Negotiating with Democrats is like negotiating with Hamas)
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Kokomo is between the two . The jail there has several residents with Chicago and Detroit addresses. Mostly multiple drug felonies and firearms with an occasional murder.

I can only assume they’d make the extra 40 mile trek from there to Indy


16 posted on 07/23/2014 10:14:24 PM PDT by digger48
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It would be informative to look at the perp demographics of the cases to that the racist Eric Holder and DOJ are not prosecuting.

I think we all know what such a study would show.


17 posted on 07/24/2014 2:07:24 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I wonder what the racial makeup was of the cases they chose to prosecute vs not prosecute is?


18 posted on 07/24/2014 2:09:12 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SandRat

“If you like your criminals you can keep them.”


19 posted on 07/24/2014 3:59:55 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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