House Republicans just rammed through two bills that smash the dangerous, woke experiments turning Washington, D.C. into a criminal playground. Cashless bail? Gone. The 2022 city council farce that handcuffed cops more than the crooks? Gutted.
Elise Stefanik led the charge on the cash bail repeal, and it passed 237-179. Her bill forces judges to lock up violent thugs before trial and slaps mandatory cash bail on anyone who’s a walking threat to decent people.
“New Yorkers know that Kathy Hochul’s failed bail reform has unleashed a crime wave across our state by emboldening violent criminals and putting law-abiding New Yorkers in harm’s way. Kathy Hochul’s failed bail reform has literally caused m*rders, assaults, r*pes, and heinous crimes to be committed against law-abiding New Yorkers,” Stefanik stated.
She made it crystal clear this is just the opening salvo. “Today I proudly voted to end cashless bail in DC, which Congress has jurisdiction over, and this is a precursor to next month when Congress will pass my bill to end New York’s failed bail reform,” she said. “Kathy Hochul is incapable of making New York safe, so I will come over the top of her and pass this in Congress.”
Democrats, of course, cried about “presumption of innocence.” Eleanor Holmes Norton whined that the bill is “unconstitutional” and violates bedrock principles.
James Comer shredded that nonsense on the House floor: “Progressive, activist judges are currently allowed to release criminals to DC’s streets with only a promise that they will not re-offend and will return to court for their trial date.” He went on to say the new law “would require judges to hold anyone charged with a violent crime before trial, and it would impose cash bail or bail bonds on anyone charged with a range of public-safety or law-and-order offenses.”
Comer called the CLEAN DC Act exactly what it was: an “anti-police law” that “stripped law enforcement officers of many tools needed to execute their duties safely and without fear of retribution, as well as limited their options in situations of life or death.”
He added that it “created new opportunities for anti-police activists to harass law enforcement officers and added many undue burdens and requirements to officers in the DC Metropolitan Police Department.”
Norton tried the tired “crime is down” talking point, claiming violent crime “dropped 35% last year” and “another 28% this year.”
Reality check: DC still had the fourth-highest m*rder rate in America last year, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives. When you start from apocalyptic levels, even a big drop leaves you in a war zone.
Remember when Joe Biden vetoed this police reform rollback that had passed both chambers with bipartisan support?
He bleated that it would reverse “commonsense police reforms such as: banning chokeholds; limiting use of force and deadly force; improving access to body-worn camera recordings; and requiring officer training on de-escalation and use of force.”
Then President Trump actually did something. In August, he federalized the district, flooded the streets with National Guard, and unleashed federal agents to help stop crime. Violent crime plunged 45% in a single month. Carjackings cratered 87%. Overall crime fell 15%.
Even Mayor Muriel Bowser had to admit it worked and ordered full cooperation with the feds.
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