As violent crime surges in the nation’s capital, the president is doing the right thing in supporting D.C.’s mayor and opposing the city council’s soft-on-crime bill, writes mattklewis
, according to local police data.”
In the wake of demonstrably increasing crime rates, which invariably harm the poorest communities most, the D.C. city council chosemoment to pass this bill? And the vote wasn’t even close. When D.C.’s mayor vetoed the legislation,Young people today probably don’t appreciate the psychological damage that comes from a sense that crime is out of control, or that “bleeding-heart liberal” politicians contribute to the problem by preventing law enforcement from taking criminals off our streets.
Maybe he is finally listening. There aren’t a ton of things a president can do to address violent crime in our cities. Because of the unique relationship between the city of Washington, D.C., and the U.S. government, this is one of the rare opportunities he will have to clearly demonstrate sanity on the issue.
Biden is also blessed to have a unique circumstance in American politics today: For most modern-day politicians, the primary is more dangerous and competitive than the general election. This creates a perverse incentive where the smart move is to cave in to the extremes in your tribe. By standing up against this progressive soft-on-crime bill, at the risk of offending people who consider D.C. statehood one of the civil rights issues of our time, Biden is doing the opposite.
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