Recall campaign accuses Dem of 'legacy of failure' following sweeping crime bill vote (D.C.)

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The Washington, D.C., City Council's vote to pass a sweeping public safety bill can't change one member's "legacy of failure" or restore lives lost in the District's surging crime crisis, a campaign to recall the Democrat told Fox News.

All but one councilmember on Tuesday voted in favor of the Secure D.C. Omnibus Amendment Act, which includes a swath of measures aimed at curbing surging crime, amid outcries from fed-up business owners and residents. The urgent response comes as two Democrats who voted in favor of the bill, Councilmembers Brianne Nadeau and Charles Allen, face recall efforts over their criminal justice reform positions.

"The vote on Secure DC is only necessary due to the reckless, pro-criminal and anti-police policies Councilmember Nadeau has championed over her last decade in office," the Committee to Recall Brianne Nadeau said in a statement. "Sadly, nothing in this bill can restore the lives and livelihoods that have been lost over these past years of unimaginable crime levels."

The sweeping legislation contains over 100 measures, including harsher penalties for gun crimes and retail theft, an expanded definition of carjacking and revives drug-free zones. Nadeau boasted that the Secure DC act included her amendment, a study that would evaluate the District's witness assistance programs and offer recommendations.

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But the recall campaign accused the council and the three-term Democrat of taking action too late. It also criticized an amendment that raised the amount for retail theft to be considered a felony from $500 to $1,000, arguing that the higher threshold would make it harder to hold thieves accountable.

"The District is in the midst of a nationally recognized crime crisis," the Nadeau recall campaign statement said. "We've been repeatedly ignored and dismissed by Brianne Nadeau for years despite our pleas for help."

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Just wait until RATS are told to eat ze bugs.

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Get a rope.

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wsj.com
Oct. 15, 2020
By Eliza Collins

Biden said Clinton’s 1994 “tough on crime” bill was his bill
Bill increased incarceration for young black men
Now Says his Support for Crime Bill Was a Mistake

Joe Biden said it was a mistake to support the 1994 crime law that led to an increase in incarceration of black men.

Mr. Biden said supporting the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was a mistake but that the bill came from good intentions.

Biden has been criticized for shepherding the bill, and other criminal justice measures, through Congress in his role as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1980s and 1990s.

Critics of Mr. Biden have said the 1994 crime bill, and other laws passed during that time, led to systemic racism within the nation’s criminal-justice system.....and led to mass incarceration for young Black men.

Mr. Biden also said he still believes that “more cops clearly mean less crime,” but only “if they’re involved in community policing not jump squads.”