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This is what Trump and Sessions’s “tough on crime” policies look like on the ground.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has traveled around the country this year invoking fears of violent crime — and particularly the criminal group MS-13 — to justify a new “tough on crime” crackdown under the Trump administration.
On the ground, however, Sessions’s anti-crime efforts look more like the old war on drugs than a new push against violent crime. Earl Rinehart reported for the Columbus Dispatch that US Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Benjamin Glassman “is costing taxpayers more money” by prosecuting more people, even minor players in drug trafficking, “and he’s OK with that.” Rinehart went on (emphasis mine):
The increase in the prosecution of violent crimes and drug cases such as these, especially amid the opioid crisis, had the U.S District Court for Southern Ohio looking for extra jail space to keep a record 483 defendants whose cases were pending as of Oct. 7.“That’s a lot for us,” said Chief U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. Of the total defendants, 223 were up on drug charges, 43 for violent crimes and 38 for child pornography.
Based on these figures, nearly half of the new cases are for drug charges, and less than 10 percent are for violent crime. Despite Sessions’s rhetoric about violent crime, it sure looks like drugs are still his office’s main focus.
On Twitter, Glassman pushed back on the Dispatch’s report. He wrote, “I disagree that we are now charging minor players who, in years past, would not have been charged at all. To the contrary, as the article also notes, we're pushing our investigations and prosecutions farther and wider than ever before. If anything, as our scope and reach continue to grow, defendants who looked like leaders in years past now seem more like minor players. But we are absolutely not looking to prosecute low-level folks. Just the opposite.”
In a statement, Glassman also questioned the Dispatch’s methodology and sources. He said that, by his count, “roughly a third of our case load involves violent crime and another third involves drugs or organized crime related to drugs, like money laundering.”
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