Crime in Washington, D.C., is a crisis. Six months ago, the Washington Examiner looked at some of the problems plaguing the nation’s capital. In the months since, things feel worse than ever, but that might be starting to change. In this series, we are looking at how the nation’s capital wound up with its record on crime, how it affects its standing in the world, and what can be done to turn the problem around. In part three, the Washington Examiner looked at how one prosecutor has taken special interest in the events of Jan. 6, sometimes to the detriment of other cases.

U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves’s tough-on-crime approach to defendants involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach has continued to capture national headlines, as have violent crime rates in Washington, D.C., which soared under his watch last year.