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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know some will complain about DC Home Rule issues, but I do think the US Congress has a responsibility to protect citizens visiting from outside of DC to see the sights or to do a Capitol Hill visit.  A safe environment is more important than woke progressive politics in Capitol city.[/quote]

+1 Exactly--thank you!![/quote]

Explain the correlation between an updated criminal code that goes into place in three years and tourist safety. I'm very curious[/quote]

Does there need to be a correlation?  The fact that the revisions would not take effect for several years does not make it any less stupid.  If the DC Council wants to be treated like a serious institution, then they should act like one.  Carjackings, street robberies, etc. are out of control around here.[/quote]

Please explain how these changes would lead to more car jackings, street robberies, etc. And please read through this before you give the tired excuses about "lowering sentences"

https://wamu.org/story/23/01/27/dc-criminal-code-overhaul-details/[/quote]

The point of lowering the maximum sentence is to decrease leverage, which decreases the likelihood of punishment, which increases the rates.  And I'm sorry, 4 years for carjacking is just too little. It's a serious, dangerous, invasive crime. Nobody "accidentally" or innocently carjacks such that they deserve a break.  There is no nicer form of carjacking.

Also I'm not really an "optics" person, but the optics of focusing on decreasing carjacking sentences (even if you just believe it is on paper) when we are in the middle of a carjacking epidemic just looks clueless.  [/quote]

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