"It's a safe bet that we're going to see an increase in the prosecution of this," said Jesse McClure, one of two new special prosecutors the Texas Department of Insurance hired to increase prosecutions of insurance fraud.
Advocate groups, lawmakers and victims have called for specific steps they believe are necessary to increase prosecutions of such criminals in the military, including taking the reporting of sexual assault out of the chain of command.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces the Trump administration will increase prosecutions of people apprehended crossing the border illegally.
Sessions himself, while a US attorney in the Southern District of Alabama, was among the federal prosecutors to sharply increase prosecutions of gun cases during the early 1990s at the behest of then-attorney general Richard Thornburgh, a Republican.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced last month that the Justice Department would dramatically increase prosecutions of families who cross the U.S. border illegally, even if children would be removed from their parents during the process.
Hard-line immigration advisors on Trump's transition team also are drafting plans to dramatically increase prosecutions of illegal entry, an immigration violation that doesn't always lead to deportation under current policy.
The Justice Department does not comment on the center's annual report, but a spokeswoman said the agency had increased prosecution of hate crimes by 35 percent during the first three years of Mr. Obama's presidency.
It's true that family separations were a result of increased prosecution of illegal border crossings.
She was also critical of the Obama administration's increased prosecution of whistleblowers, saying it has had a chilling effect on people coming forward with information about waste, fraud, and abuse. .
We have increased prosecutions of wealthy tax cheats and our crackdown on offshore tax cheats has already brought in more than £2bn since 2010.
