Bowser's record on public safety loomed as Democratic mayoral candidates debated in the basement of a Northeast Washington church.
The city already was on edge from a rash of carjackings as D.C. police statistics show violent crime has leaped 25 percent year-over-year and robberies have spiked 57 percent. Voters are weary, and the politicians challenging D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser are seeing the growing public concern over crime as a way to make inroads into her lead in the polls.
And former Ward 5 ANC commissioner James Butler used almost all of his opening salvo to attack Bowser’s record on crime. “Today has been a heartbreaking day for our community,” Bowser wrote. “Unfortunately, tonight, I looked into the eyes of parents who were terrified, and they were terrified thinking of what might happen to their children. This epidemic of gun violence in our country, the easy access to firearms — it has got to stop.”“People should not be scared taking their children to school. People should not be scared sitting in their cars when they run errands.
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