Rampant crime in Washington, D.C., is a product of insufficient funding but also of a city that is doing less with less, according to a recent report conducted by the Manhattan Institute.

Fewer cops are making fewer arrests, prosecutors convert serious offenses down to misdemeanors, and fewer judges are in place to handle the backlog of cases that are brought, criminal justice policy researcher Charles Fain Lehman found in his study.

“The past several years of efforts to solve D.C.’s crime problems show that officials believe that criminal offenders are reacting to a lack of stiff penalties,” Lehman wrote in his report. “But the problem is not leniency; the problem is that, across the criminal-justice system, existing laws are unenforced.”

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