Reducing crime will be crucial for Mayor Muriel E. Bowser to accomplish third-term goals that are focused largely on reversing negative outcomes from the pandemic.
” measure that Bowser introduced in May — enhances a rebate program to encourage more private security cameras, allows pretrial GPS monitoring data to be used as evidence of guilt in court, and creates new offenses, including felony strangulation and endangerment with a firearm and for shooting in public. It also makes it easier to detain pretrial juveniles for certain violent offenses and adults charged with any violent offense.
But the urgent nature and rhetoric surrounding the emergency legislation have also created an expectation that it can lead to more immediate change, drawing skepticism from some criminal justice experts. Eduardo Ferrer, a juvenile justice policy director at Georgetown University, said he was doubtful the bill would have an immediate impact considering that it is largely “reactive” to crime vs. preventive.
on the dais that the measure would not substantially reduce crime and instead encroach on defendants’ rights.Bowser, however, argued last week that the legislation would “have an impact the second a judge decides that somebody who has committed a violent crime should be held until their trial.
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