Thanks to new data now available on TRACFED, subscribers can quickly examine the actual performance of individual federal prosecutors from Fiscal Years 1986 to 2002. Also available on TRAC's public site is a summary report that reveals wide variations found among assistant U.S. attorneys (AUSAs) in the percentage of investigative matters they decline to prosecute.

"Until now, because of the complexity of the judicial process, knowledge about the record of each federal prosecutor was largely anecdotal. With the new TRACFED prosecutors tool reporters, lawyers, public interest groups and others can quickly obtain the case-by-case listings of individual AUSAs as well as counts on referrals process and statistical information about the percent of matters declined, kinds of cases handled, etc. Compare the sentences achieved by one prosecutor with the sentences of all prosecutors in the district or the U.S."