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With its Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, the D.C. Council proved yet again that the city is clearly not up to the responsibility of prudent self-governance that statehood would confer.

Seventeen D.C. statehood advocates were arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, protesting a Senate vote to block an overhaul of D.C.’s century-old criminal code.

Keeping criminals in jail, and not letting them loose among the general populace is the way to reverse the increasing homicide rate in Washington, according to Robert Contee, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

The U.S. Senate on March 8 overwhelmingly approved a House-passed bill that would overturn a controversial D.C. crime ...

D.Cs crime bill would reduce mandatory sentences for violent crimes at a time when the GOP is blasting Joe Biden and Democrats as soft on crime.

D.C. Council Chair attempted to withdraw the city’s criminal code revision before the Senate's expected vote on a disapproval resolution.

Democratic D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced at a press conference on Monday that he was withdrawing a ...

A Senate leadership aide said a vote disapproving of the legislation approved by the D.C. Council is still expected to happen.

On Monday D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson announced he sent a letter to the U.S. Senate to withdraw the Revised Criminal Code Act (RCCA), the major overhaul of D.C.'s criminal laws.

The Senate is planning to vote on the Washington, D.C., criminal code despite efforts from the district council chairman to withdraw the bill to prevent its overhaul.