SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson released statistics Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Justice reporting on the numbers of criminal defendants charged in the Northern District of California during the 2019 fiscal year ended September 30, 2019. Also presented were statistics identifying the numbers of defendants charged in fiscal year 2018.
According to the statistics, the Office of the United States Attorney filed cases against a total of 671 defendants in FY 2019, an increase of more than 24% from the 540 defendants charged the previous year.
The increase in criminal case filings includes the highest ever number of defendants charged federally in the Northern District of California in two categories of cases:
- violent crime (up 35% from 163 defendants in FY 2018 to 220 defendants in FY 2019) and
- firearms violations (up 19% from 159 defendants in FY 2018 to 187 defendants in FY 2019).
Cases filed against defendants in drug cases also increased during FY 2019: in 2018, the Northern District of California charged drug offenses against 145 defendants whereas in FY 2019, the office charged 230 defendants in drug cases, an increase of 53% in the number of defendants charged in drug cases. Immigration filings decreased by 5% from 39 defendants in FY 2018 to 37 in FY 2019. White collar filings increased 8% from 102 defendants in FY 2018 to 111 defendants in FY 2019.
“Our objective is to serve the community, vindicate federal interests, and uphold the rule of law,” stated U.S. Attorney Anderson. “Although the most recent statistics reflect a massive acceleration of our practice, the case charging statistics are one but only one of the many ways we use to measure our achievement of that objective.”
“The acceleration of our case charging statistics is equally balanced between expanded outreach and practice improvement.”
“Amidst a background of gun violence and gun debate, our job is to vigorously enforce the gun laws that Congress has passed and the Courts have upheld,” Anderson said.
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I wonder about the firearms violations and what that entails? Is a firearms violation when they catch some thug in possession when they shouldn’t have a firearm, or is a firearm violation when some uninformed gun owner has their firearm configured incorrectly because of all these overreaching gun rules/ laws continuously updated and changed by the legislature; or all of the above? It’s a challenge to keep up with the new rules every year!
Someone has to charge these criminals. Thanks to the US Attorney’s Office for picking up the slack of Becton. The current filing rate at the county level is down 300% so she can hang her political hat on how “Well” she has done. Lock your doors folks.
I forget, wasn’t Becton appointed- so we didn’t actually get to vote on this choice? Thanks for the reminder.
She was appointed buy George Soros. One of them Davos. It sucks but what can we do. Fight oh rigbt we got no guns.
High rents, gas prices and all around highest $ in Cali. No middle class
industry, no positives, lots of negatives.
That can only last so long. Sometimes when the goin’ gets tough…..,
there’s a criminal element that boils up…,?
Yez/No ?
More jobs are needed in the area.
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