Remember when they were saying that crime was not that bad?
(ABC News) Politicians in the nation’s capital are expected on Tuesday to pass what is being called an emergency public safety bill to address rising crime rates in the city.
As of Monday, homicide in Washington was up 17% year-to-date compared to 2022, while reported robberies were up 52% and motor vehicle thefts were up 117%, according to police statistics.
And 22 was up, as was 2021 and 2020. Who would want to visit D.C. when the chance of being robbed or having your car stolen are up. Neighborhood Scout ranks D.C. as a 2, meaning it is safer than 2% of US cities. 100 is the best. This is our nations capital, and over half of the city is a dangerous place.
(WTOP) The mayor of D.C. and several members of the city council are putting their support behind an emergency crime bill that is aimed at curbing a spike in violent crimes in the nation’s capital. The legislation introduced by Ward 2 council member Brooke Pinto.
“We are in a state of emergency right now,” Pinto said during a press conference and community question and answer session at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center in Northeast.
The session comes as the city reports a 33% spike in violent crime over the same period last year. Crimes considered violent includes homicide, sexual abuse, assault with a dangerous weapon and robbery.
“The criminal activity occurring in our neighborhoods is unacceptable,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Why is it unacceptable now when it was “a challenge” previously? Someone Important must have experienced a crime. They didn’t seem to care that much when a 13 year old and a 15 year old carjacked a man and hit him with a stun gun, causing him to crash and die.
The bill includes a provision which would lean in favor of keeping both adults and juveniles who commit violent crimes, behind bars until their trial. It also would expand the private security camera program in the city.
For people who are released from jail with ankle monitors on, the bill will allow GPS information collected by Pretrial Services Agency to be shared with the courts, when someone is suspected of committing another crime while on pre-trial release.
There are many more components to the bill, and will certainly be amendments offered today.
Mendelson said the comments came because of the case closure rates being seen in the city, something he said goes beyond what city council can do.
“I don’t have a badge to make arrests, I don’t have a badge to investigate,” Mendelson said.
He called on more aggressive prosecutions and a rise in closure rates. Mendelson said he has since reached out to Interim Police Chief Ashan Benedict to explain what he meant by his comments to the TV station last week.
Mendelson has said “you can get away with murder here”, while the chief of police said “When they commit crimes in our city, you can’t get away with murder here, we will catch you.” Will they? D.C. has a low rate of catching murderers. Then they have to deal with the Progressive prosecutors releasing them. And police who are blase’ about going after criminals, because they know any interaction could lead to them being accused of raaaaacism, being that a vast majority of the criminals are black. And why should the cops work hard when they know the perps will be released and commit more crimes?
DC already has legislation. Plenty of it. FREE CLUE: Murder, rape, and robery are already illegal. Making them double-plus illegal but still having a prosecutor who prefers to spend all his time prosecuting Jan 6 “conspirators” and letting everyone else go isn’t going to solve the problem.
Historically, the only thing that reduces crime is removing criminals from the places where they commit crimes. Historically, this is done by putting them into prisons, exiles, or graves.
Now that everything is catch and release, there is no point having better, different, or more laws.
Well stated, sir.
Homicides are down in the City of Brotherly Love, but they’ll still top 400, and probably 450, so the Democrats will see that as progress. But in 2013 and 2014, homicides were under 250, so maybe not that much progress.