The proposal offers tough-on-crime measures, at a time when D.C. is under fire for being too lenient on offenders and Bowser is set to appear on Capitol Hill.
by giving judges more discretion in cases that involve adults with past violent convictions or youths charged with certain violent and gun offenses.
Bowser on Monday pressed the council to vote on the legislation ahead of its summer recess in six weeks, but Mendelson said it would be “difficult” to move that quickly on a complicated array of issues.and critically wounded amid a barrage of gunfire in Northeast Washington. Hours later, in a separate incident, a 12-year-old girl sleeping in her bed was grazed by a stray bullet.
On Tuesday before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, the District’s top public safety officials, including Bowser andD.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III, will probably be forced to square their efforts to quell crime with the rising number of killings. Republicans on the committee have frequently argued that the nation’s capital is unsafe and that liberal policies and politicians are to blame.
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