approximately 67 percent of people arrested by police officers in 2022, almost doubling the declination rate within the last seven years. Matthew M. Graves has failed to uphold his oath and has instead overseen a denigration of the principles of our justice system by allowing the District of Columbia to be on pace to set records for crime. According to police data, crime is up 23 percent on U.S. Attorney Graves’s watch. Homicides are up 30 percent. Murders in Washington, DC, exceeded 200 in 2021 and 2022 for the first time since 2003. Instead of preventing prosecuting these crimes, Graves’s office has hired more attorneys solely to prosecute more than 1,000 individuals who have been arrested for political protest or touring the U.S. Capitol. United States Attorney Graves has perversely and unconstitutionally sought lengthy pretrial detention for dozens these political opponents, including individuals not accused of committing any violence. In doing so, Graves is systematically criminalizing political dissent. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco admitted that the Department of Justice has pulled prosecutors from cases around the country in order to prosecute such cases in Washington, DC, instead of serious crime. Matthew M. Graves has engaged in abuse of power by becoming a tool of the Biden regime’s pro-crime, anti-democracy agenda. Article II Matthew M. Graves, in his inability to enforce the law, has engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with his duties as a civil officer of the United States. Matthew M. Graves, in his failure to uphold the oath he took, has, by his actions, lost the trust of citizens of the United States to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Matthew M. Graves, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the justice system of the United States of America if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. Wherefore, Matthew M. Graves, thus warrants impeachment and trial,