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Crime in Washington, D.C., has gotten so bad that the Committee on House Administration held a hearing on “Safety on Capitol Hill” last month. It heard a number of alarming statistics.
It’s worth noting how congressional Democrats react to dangerous “defund the police” policies when they affected them personally. They’ve beefed up their own police force.
Numbers reported by the Metropolitan Police Department show decreases in violent and property crimes for 2024 compared to this point in 2023. But a deeper look at the month-over-month data indicates a decrease across some major categories coincided with the D.C. Council passing emergency legislation last July.