[muawiyah]

Sure, right. The gangbangers here were tracking down witnesses INSIDE FEDERAL COURTS.

They don't care.

All those other places you named never have things like that happen.

[wideawake]

People in my former haunts kill witnesses quite frequently - rarely in court buildings anymore because of the drastic security measures that are taken now.

But they kill witnesses to murders, heists and large scale illegal transactions, not witnesses to car radio theft.

I'm going to guess that the dead witnesses whereof you speak were not in court to testify to a single automotive break-in.