Prosecutions dipped during Alito's tenure as U.S. attorney

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Data show number of prosecutions by his office dipped 30% in his first year as Jersey's U.S. attorney

BY TOM BRUNE
WASHINGTON BUREAU
November 3, 2005


WASHINGTON -- In Samuel Alito's first year as U.S. attorney for New Jersey in 1987, the number of defendants his office prosecuted plunged 30 percent from the year before, with the biggest drop coming in drug cases, an analysis of federal criminal justice data shows.

During the next three years under Alito's leadership, the New Jersey U.S. attorney's office never fully recovered, each year failing to prosecute as many as the 980 defendants indicted or charged in 1986, the analysis by Syracuse University researchers shows.

In fact, in no year in the past two decades has the office prosecuted so few criminal defendants as it did in each of the four years it was under Alito's control, the analysis found. <snip>

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/ny-usjudg034495803nov03,0,7523002.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print

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1. So he wasn't a gung-ho drug warrior?

While Alito's prosecutions of drug cases dipped sharply before rising again, nationally federal narcotics prosecution rose from nearly 15,000 defendants in 1986 to nearly 24,000 in 1990, the analysis shows.

That's a bad thing?

The Drug War has been one of the most destructive and counter productive 'movements' to ever exist in our society, and Ronald Regan was its biggest champion...and we're going to pick on Alito for not fighting it hard enough?

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2. alito SOFT ON CRIME!

:rofl:

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Hey, what was he doing during the "tough on crime" era?

No capiche?