Steven Richards
Representative of Andy Biggs, R-Hariz, will introduce two legislative acts to change the DC home principle to give the President a longer period of local police control and reversing the policy of a non-cash deposit of the district, Only a message He learned.
At the beginning of this month, President Donald Trump took over direct control over Washington, DC Metropolitan Department Police Department, citing the persistently high offenses using a violent crime in the capital of the country and the lack of a solution by the city and local law enforcement authorities.
Despite local officials and democratic officials advertising official crime statistics, which show an estimated decline in crime using violence by 30%, DC is still statistically one of the most unsafe places among cities in the USA. The capital has the fourth highest murder rate among all American cities, measuring only St. Louis, Mo, Nowy Orlean, La and Detroit, Mi, The latest data 2024 show.
Is also Growing evidence Introduced by an informant who accused the statistics of crime, was manipulated. This would mean, if it is proven, the city of Washington, DC may have a more common problem with crime than Official statistics suggest.
Police union: DC Crime drops by 8% since the takeover
The administration raised federal resources to the city, including the exploit of agents from immigration and customs enforcement, drug enforcement administration, park police, secret service and national guard soldiers to support the police in patrols, investigations and arrests.
The White House says Over 450 people were arrested Since the takeover, including suspects wanted for crimes, from murder to assault on federal officers. The DC police relationship said that general crime has fallen by 8%since President Trump sent federal aid and took control of the local police.
However, the impact of the president is narrow by both the Home Government Act of 1973-who was awarded by DC local government-and local penalty codes, which include policies such as non-cash deposits, which according to critics make crime hard.
Rep. Biggs aims to solve both of these problems through the modern regulations, which will ensure the president “the necessary time and permission to suppress chaos, which prevailed in the DC,” he said.
“When the capital of our nation faces lawlessness, brutal crime and failure in public order, the Federal Government bears the responsibility and constitutional obligation in the scope of decision making,” said Biggs representative in the provided statement Only a message.
“The district of Colombia is the seat of our federal government, the home of our institutions and a symbol of American strength. Poor leadership at local level too often causes DC to be susceptible to the chaos of a radical left,” he said. “President Trump showed his commitment to restoring law and order in DC and all over the country.”
Bill will expand the control to 180 days
Executive action signed by the President on August 11 for the first time the head of the head of the Laws of the Law referred to section 270 of the Act on the city’s principle, since the Federal District received the local government in the 70s.
The Act provides that the president may control the local police department as part of a failure. However, he states that the president may perform this direct control for 30 days, after which he must ask for consent to the congress.
The first legal act, known as Set the DC againHe will change the law of the home principle to extend the emergency in which the president can take control of the DC police from 30 to 180 days. The bill would also apply a modern schedule to any previously announced failures, in accordance with the draft provisions checked by Only a message. This means that if the current emergency orders were adopted, President Trump would be extended, which gives more time for federal efforts to reduce local crime.
President Trump previously said that he would work on eliminating a deposit without goods in American cities, including Washington, blaming the crime growth policy. At the beginning of this month he called the Congress until the end of the internship. Rep. Biggs plans to place a second bill that would do it.
“Direct” deposit eliminated under the proposed law
. Keep criminals away from our streets Would take the practice of issuing an individual process without “implemented unsecured bonds”, in accordance with the project of the proposed provisions reviewed by Only a message. An unsecured bond is a kind of deposit in which the defendant makes a written promise to appear in court. It also contains a written one I promise to pay a specific amount of money If it doesn’t appear.
The bill would prohibit the DC Council, the city self -government, the introduction of all provisions that would forbid the cash deposit, and the mayor’s office to enforce all provisions or regulations to do the same. The bill would also hit some of the provisions regarding the DC deposit that allow the accused to release without such a bond.
Washington, DC eliminated the cash deposit in the 1990s for fears of civil rights, especially because the poorer people accused of crimes ended in trapped to their trials, while the wealthy accused could pay out of the pre -trial detention. Proponents of the current system quoting The statistics that they say show program effectiveness.
According to the latest data, 87% of the defendants are issued before the trial in the district. Of these, 87% successfully appears on their court’s day, although this indicator fell from the last peak of 92% in the 2021 budget year.
Both bills would probably be able to transfer the chamber of representatives controlled by the Republicans. However, in the Senate they would face a steep climbing, which, although controlled by Republicans, requires at least seven democratic voices to pristine the 60-voice Filibuster threshold.
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Steven Richards is only a news reporter.
Photo “Members of the DC National Guard” by DC National Guard.
