U.S. attorney in LA crime rate
The head of the American state prosecutor will be criticized by some judges say they have actually quotas, they forced him to focus on minor crimes rather than to a large extent, but complex and lengthy .
The Los Angeles Times “said that she spoke with 11 judges and three former members of the judiciary, all of them requested anonymity. USA Since the Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien, target rate figures last year, prosecutors, since they work on mail theft, illegal immigration and drug trafficking cases moll.
“These figures,” said a prosecutor.
“The feeling around the office, if you have your quota, you can at your case, without any real hassled,” said a former supervisor.
O’Brien refused to set quotas and added that his office is “to continue to use some of the larger, complex cases in the nation.”
It has the option “Performance objectives” to the conversion of years of declining productivity Los Angeles office, said O’Brien, but he added that these objectives is not necessary meeting quotas.
“This is not the Office and will never be quotas for their criminal judges,” he said. “Deutet pointed out that every lawyer in this position must be a number of defendants each year or face discipline is simply not true.”
The Times reported Friday that at least one prosecutor has been transferred and another received lower ratings for performance is not compliance with the new standards.
O’Brien said the performance were created to promote the objectives of prosecutors to go after both large and small events. He said, a freeze on hiring in June that ended it left a serious shortage of staff and productivity has been reduced from 30 to 40 percent by the year 2001.
“We were literally not even take cases in the door. We were almost become relevant, “said O’Brien, USA, he is a lawyer for mid-District of California, seven counties over 18 million inhabitants.
The new targets are based on the average number of the accused to each section of the Office had in recent years, “said O’Brien.
Increased productivity likely to allocate resources from the Department of Justice and the office of Los Angeles saw its staff. O’Brien believes he has hired 60 new attorneys last year.
He has supporters.
“Even if it is a quota, what?” said Greg Staples, a prosecutor in Santa Ana. “Doing cases, large and small events, anything is possible. Anything that tells us not yet production on a regular basis.”
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