In a typical urban jurisdiction, 50 percent of all felony arrests are not prosecuted, and nearly two-thirds either are not prosecuted or are reduced to misdemeanors through plea bargaining. Although William McDonald (in his paper on police-prosecutor conflicts) attributes much of the high dismissal and plea bargaining rates to police investigatory and report-writing inadequacies, others attribute high dismissal and plea bargaining rates to inadequate resources for the full processing of a higher percentage of cases or to victim noncooperation. A factor often ignored, prosecutorial failure, may involve dismissing or plea bargaining all but the cases with an abundance of evidence so as to ensure a good trial record for career advancement. It may reflect bureaucratic cynicism, callousness toward crime, or even laziness. The police and the public have a right to expect that criminal cases are taken seriously by the prosecutor and that they are resolved on their merits. Seven notes are provided.