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.
Mr. Cuellar and Ms. Craig are just two of the thousands victimized in our nation’s capital this year by career criminals who should have been behind bars years ago.The Council passed a revised criminal code in January of this year that was so radical that bipartisan majorities of both houses of Congress and even President Biden rejected it.
The moderator for the first panel was Richard Schmechel, a former criminal defense attorney for the D.C. Public Defender Service and the author of “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.” The panel included three former public defenders, a convicted murderer, and a liberal law professor. Their conversation focused on defendants and how the existing criminal code was unfair to them.
Marc Schindler, executive director of the Justice Policy Institute, moderated the third panel, and opened by stating that “we still lock up almost exclusively Black people and poor Black people,” suggesting that Blacks are locked up simply for being Black. Given the attitudes of the people behind D.C.’s revised criminal code, it is no wonder that the policy proved so radical and controversial. Personnel is policy, after all.
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