House GOP Moves To Block D.C.’s Efforts To Ease Up on Criminals

In the first month of 2023, homicides increased by 40 percent in Washington over the same period last year, motor vehicle theft by 73 percent, and property crime by nearly 40 percent.

AP/Jacquelyn Martin, file
The Washington mayor, Muriel Bowser. AP/Jacquelyn Martin, file

Even with crime on the rise across the District of Columbia, the city council wants to make it harder to prosecute violent crimes — over the objections of the city’s mayor, its law enforcement officials, and Republicans in the House. 

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