WASHINGTON DC Thursday, April 20 at 1:00 PM ET, the US Chamber of Commerce will host “America’s Crime Wave: How the Failure to Prosecute is Impacting Businesses,” with US Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R, NY-11), Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, and Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Dan Mehan. In conversation with Chamber experts, these policy leaders will discuss rising crime across America and how prosecutors’ failure to prosecute is hurting businesses across the country.
“It’s the government’s responsibility to make sure our communities are safe,” said Neil Bradley, Chief Policy Officer of the US Chamber. “That requires good laws, good police, and prosecutors who do their jobs and bring criminals to justice. However, it is becoming increasingly common, especially in large cities, to find prosecutors failing in their most basic duty, simply refusing to prosecute many crimes. The result is a fundamental breakdown of the rule of law—but we can do it. At the federal level we can increase transparency to understand where crimes are not prosecuted, and violations are repeated. At the state and local level we can ask prosecutors to do their job. Business leaders have many concerns when running their business, but protecting their employees and customers from violent crime should not be one of them.
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