There was rare consensus among nearly all federal lawmakers and testifiers in the room about the state of crime in the nation’s capital.
House Republicans probed the rise of violent crime in D.C. in a contentious hearing Thursday, describing the District as embroiled in a “culture of lawlessness” and pressing authorities to impose harsher punishments on those convicted of violent offenses.
liberal approaches to mitigating violence, and Democrats casting the hearing as a “political stunt” used to distract constituents from chaos unfolding a few steps away, as the House GOP liberal prosecutors — and the GOP’s approach to the District on Thursday was no different, even though the city’s top prosecutor is federally appointed.“No section of this city can be considered safe anymore,” said Rep. Andy Biggs in his opening statement. “The man who is in charge of prosecuting the criminals has abandoned his responsibilities.”
Graves has said the office in recent months has been prosecuting a higher percentage of cases, though the office declined to provide a specific number, saying on social media that itAt the hearing, House GOP members and Gregg Pemberton, the police union chair, criticized the District for 2020 policing legislation that they said hurt officer morale and led toAppiah suggested the District had gone too far with some of that legislation and pointed to emergency legislation passed by the council...
Sobolevsky and Jablonski both argued that their attackers were not punished enough for their crimes, which they characterized as emblematic of Washington’s failure to curb violence.In Jablonski’s case, prosecutors charged the defendant with assault with a dangerous weapon. The defendant pleaded guilty to attempted assault with a dangerous weapon — a less serious offense, but still a felony crime of violence — and was ultimately sentenced to eight months in prison.
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