Washington – On Thursday, the mayor of the capital, Morel Boser, defended her policies to Congress as president Donald Trump The increase in law enforcement in the second month and the law of the lawmakers More limit City authority.
She was invited to the House of Representatives Committee for Government Supervision and Reform to answer questions about the crime in the country’s capital. Trump issued an emergency order last month that recorded the city police administration and launched a group of law enforcement. the The emergency order has expired earlier this month But the federal agencies and the National Guard continue their operations in the city.
BowSer was included in the city’s achievements in reducing crime, admitting that federal intervention has strengthened those achievements.
“Any crime is a lot of crime,” Buser said. “But we are heading in the right direction.”
BowSer is leading the city at a time when the autonomy in the province is challenged in unprecedented ways since the passage The Law of the House of Home of 1973Which gives the region some autonomy. Federal leaders reserve great control over local affairs, including approval of the budget and laws approved by the Capital Council.
The Chairman of the Committee, MP James Kumler, Bohbakir Boser and other city officials for the crime of the capital, and opened a hearing with a group of recent crimes, many crimes involved in current and former Congress employees, including the deadly shooting of the trainee in Congress Eric Turbinian-Western.
He said: “These high crime rates are largely driven by the historically high rates of juvenile crime, which were enabled by the policies of the super crime, which are prohibited by the Capital Council and supported by the Public Prosecutor of the ongoing current.”
Kumler also spoke about other changes in the Capital Law, which canceled the mandatory minimum of one of the ruling on most crimes in addition to the changes that restrict the local police to follow the criminals.
“The officers cannot effectively implement their duties, leaving the morale numbers, keeping and employing at its lowest historical levels of the metro police administration,” he said. “These procedures send each indication to criminals, especially events, so that they can commit crimes in the region without accountability.”
Trump has described the increased law as a resounding success in deporting the crime rate in the city – which is supported by a confirmation supporter. But the data showed that the crime was already decreasing before federal intervention.
The city crime was a major issue for the Republicans, including Trump, who declared a state of emergency in August because of what he described as “disgraceful” and outside the crime of control. Trump threatened to issue another emergency order if BowSER continued her promise not to cooperate with the immigration application.
In the hearing, the tone of the questions from the committee members depends on partisan affiliation. Democrats defended the leadership of the boycott leaders.
The appearance of BowSer came before the committee one day after the House of Representatives approved the legislation of what could be a major reorganization of the provincial justice system in the province.
The bills concerned – including reducing the age in which the events can be charged as adults for some crimes to 14 of 16, in addition to eliminating the role of DC in choosing judges and leaving that to the president only, was removed from the committee last week. The House of Representatives rules committee issued the same set of bills on Monday, and the House of Representatives, with a number of Democrats, who supported measures, agreed to draft laws.
The bills are unlikely to pass through the Senate, but it is among the most comprehensive crime packages for progress in Congress in modern memory.
The head of the Capital Council, Phil Mendelson, also said the session that Washington was a “city under siege.”
He said, “It is frustrated by watching this committee discussing it and voting on 14 laws regarding the region without one general hearing, with no inputs from the provincial or public officials without regard to the influence of society, and no tearing of the analysis, including legal contentment or financial influence bills,” he said.
The Congress called for help instead, through better resources for prison -related organizations, filling judicial vacancies and allowing DC Attorney to try misdemeanors, which are often ignored by the American lawyer.