The officials said Mr. Ashcroft had also sought to step up prosecutions of would-be owners who lied on background checks, and the number of prosecutions for false statements rose 8percentt last year, officials said.
Justice Department officials said Mr. Ashcroft had sought to step up prosecutions aggressively in such cases, but the findings of the two recent studies appear to have thrown the department on the defensive.
Justice Department officials said today that they planned to step up prosecutions of gun crimes as part of a new initiative, even as a private study said prosecutors had "ignored" a vast majority of gun crimes.
But while some politicians, including a handful of Democrats, have called on the DOJ to step up prosecutions of adult pornography, First Amendment advocates are just fine with the lull.
After receiving some criticism for not aggressively pursuing such crimes in the politically active ultra-Orthodox community, Mr. Hynes's office has stepped up prosecution of abusers.
Six tons of illegal ivory was pulverized last year in the southern city of Dongguan, and Chinese courts have stepped up prosecution of illegal ivory trade.
After ousting him, she stepped up prosecutions for drunken driving.
Stepping up prosecutions aimed to deter others, HMRC estimated £295m would be yielded just by that deterrent effect, but now admit it can find no evidence these 1,000 prosecutions had "led to changes in behaviour or increases in tax revenues".
Quite the opposite: With increased enforcement (to date, only a few states have Arizona-style E-Verify laws on the books, though the Obama White House seems to be stepping up prosecutions of employers), the United States could welcome as many immigrants as we do today.
Yet a growing number of scientists have been targeted improperly as Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys have stepped up prosecutions, advocates say.
Mayor Mike Duggan, a long-time graffiti foe, created an anti-graffiti task force which stepped up prosecutions.
