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Early this month, Rep. Henry Cuellar was carjacked by three armed criminals near the Washington Navy Yard. On Feb. 9, Rep. Angie Craig was punched in the face and assaulted by a career criminal in the elevator to her D.C. apartment building.
For nearly two decades, Washington, D.C., had been carefully revising its criminal code. It took a month to blow it all up.
The Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, a unanimously passed piece of D.C. Council legislation, pushed statehood into the national discussion.
D.C. lawmakers and the mayor’s office are debating over what do to next with the revision to the city’s criminal code bill that was rejected by Congress last month.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed budget to defund the city's commission that helped create the soft-on-crime criminal code revision.