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LIVE at 11:00am ET: Deputy Attorney General Rosen to speak at @WFULawSchool about the Department of Justice’s efforts to combat violent crime and enforce the rule of law. wfu.law/Deputy-Attorne…

@WFULawSchool “At the Department of Justice, reducing violent crime is one of our very top priorities. … [L]aw enforcement works best when federal, state, and local partners work together to vigorously enforce the law and to target violent offenders.”—Deputy Attorney General Rosen

@WFULawSchool “Unfortunately, a dangerous trend is emerging… a small but increasing number of state and local district attorneys have vowed not to enforce entire categories of core criminal offenses as part of a misguided experiment in social justice reform.”—Deputy Attorney General Rosen

@WFULawSchool “No society can have justice when stealing has been effectively licensed, open-air drug markets are allowed to flourish, and neither victims nor police officers can trust that those who break the law will be held accountable.”—Deputy Attorney General Rosen

@WFULawSchool “By refusing to prosecute broad swaths of core criminal offenses, these social-reform DAs are ignoring duly-enacted laws in favor of their own personal notions of what they think the law should be.”—Deputy Attorney General Rosen

@WFULawSchool “Another real tragedy of the social reform DAs’ non-prosecution strategy is a lack of respect for victims. The refusal to enforce entire categories of criminal laws ignores the often tragic harm that is exacted upon innocent victims.”—Deputy Attorney General Rosen

@WFULawSchool “Victims deserve better. They deserve public officials who will consider the individual circumstances of their case and seek real justice in accord with the laws that are on the books.”—Deputy Attorney General Rosen

@WFULawSchool Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen's remarks at @WFULawSchool justice.gov/opa/speech/dep…