“People should feel safe in our nation’s capital, and quite frankly they don’t.”
Residents are on edge, national lawmakers are frustrated and local leaders are scrambling for answers.said growing worries about crime have impacted the quality of life in the city.
The crime wave has shown no sign of slowing. Mayor Muriel Bowser and outgoing Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee are expected to return to the Capitol on Tuesday to face more questions from Congress. Ms. Craig told a home-state TV station days later that the assailant trapped her in her building’s elevator.D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, a major proponent of the District’s failed criminal code rewrite that would have reduced penalties for some felonies, insisted at the March congressional hearing that “there is no crime crisis in Washington.” Lawmakers were unconvinced.
Chanel has responded by locking its doors and having guards queue shoppers in a line outside until a staffer is ready to receive the customer. “Right now, there’s no moral compass in the streets — there’s no moral compass anywhere — and that’s the problem that we have in society,” Mr. Moten said during a March community meeting at the Petworth Library.
Veteran police officers have left in droves, and the city has struggled to fill the vacancies — even after the mayor pumped up the signing bonus for recruits to $25,000. At the March hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace, South Carolina Republican, cited anti-police comments made by Ward 6 council member Charles Allen while decrying the District’s loss of more than 400 officers since 2019.
Federal prosecutors nominated by the White House and confirmed by the Senate litigate the District’s most serious crimes. U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves assumed his role in 2021. Even some of the most basic laws governing civil interaction in the city are unenforced, leading to deadly consequences in at least one high-profile case.
Communities across the county, including the District, responded to the death of Floyd by reassessing criminal justice policies, including those covering young offenders. The increase in the number of children with guns committing robberies and carjackings over the past two years has stunned residents.
Mr. Moten, the conflict resolution specialist, said there should be no hard-and-fast rule that every minor involved in crime should go to jail. Others argue that any solution to crime in the District has to go beyond more police and tougher penalties.
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