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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nadeau got her butt handed to her on the Politics Hour last week.  About damn time. [/quote]

Oooh yes. I just read the transcript. I’ve posted a bit here. The first person is “Greg,” a caller from Mount Pleasant. “Nnamdi” is Kojo NNamdi, the host.  “Sherwood” is Tom Sherwood, the reporter who covers all things DC.

SHE STRUGGLES TO ADMIT THERE IS A CRIME CRISIS IN THE CITY!?! What the actual????

GREG 12:18:36
Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah, I hate to pile on, but we've had 25 deaths on the streets this year versus 17 in regard to traffic accidents. Carjackings are up 92 percent. We had 72 teens and children shot this years. Twelve were murdered, dead. We had $100 million tax increase last year that was supposed to ameliorate homelessness. Homelessness went up. The Revised Criminal Code Act made us look like idiots. When is Brianne, going to admit she's moved in the wrong direction? I mean how much pride, how much performative behavior will she continue to exhibit before she admits she was wrong?

NNAMDI 12:19:14
Brianne Nadeau.

SHERWOOD 12:19:17
Start with defund police.

NADEAU 12:19:19
Right. I mean funding is not MPD's issue. They have half a billion dollars. They're dealing with the same issue that every police force in the country is, which is attrition. Even if the mayor had the money to hire 4,000 more cops it would probably take her 10 years if she's mayor that long. So I think that's sort of--the number is a distraction. A couple of things, one MPD needs to take seriously the study that Chief Contee commission around work place at MPD. And my bill the Cadet Bill, the Cadet Act actually would have us expanding our home grown program, which is a more diverse population in our police force, more women. And we know we can recruit and grown good people here. So I'm hoping we can get a hearing on that bill so we expand. But it's not a money issue.

SHERWOOD 12:20:16
That's a long term issue, isn't it? I mean if you've got a cadet, he or she does have to go through high school and two years of college we will help pay for. And get them on the street years from now. Do you agree, I ask every person who comes on this show, is there a crime crisis in this city or not? Those two words, is there a crime crisis in the city?

NADEAU 12:20:41
I think we need to be bringing all the resources to the crime issues we're having. Does that mean I think it's a crisis? Maybe.

SHERWOOD 12:20:49
Wait, wait, wait. Crime crisis is a maybe.

NADEAU 12:20:52
We have serious issues in the District of Columbia. I would say probably the biggest issue that we have right now with crime is that we are at the whims of the federal USAO to prosecute most of it and he's not doing it.

SHERWOOD 12:21:05
That's getting to the solution.

NADEAU 12:21:06
Okay.

SHERWOOD 12:21:07
I'm trying to ask the city administrator said in a meeting that people feel, he didn't they are, but he said people feel like they are terrorized by crime. And the statistics the gentleman just cited when he called, is there a crime crisis and does the Council need to act on the legislation Jenny just talked about?

NADEAU 12:21:28
I mean I think as long as we have children dying from gun violence we should consider it a crisis, yes.

SHERWOOD 12:21:33
Okay.[/quote]

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