DC Police Chief: “Lock Them Up”

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Last year homicides in Washington, DC reached a twenty year high while the brain-dead City Council was passing a law to shorten sentences for violent and serious crimes.  The Daily Mail reports that yesterday Metro Police Chief Robert Contee made a startling suggestion.  “What we got to do, if we really want to see homicides go down, is keep the bad guys with guns in jail.  Because when they’re in jail, they can’t be in communities shooting people.”

What a concept….actually punishing criminal offenders.  Several questions come to mind regarding this announcement.  What if most of the offenders to be locked up are black?  Is the Chief racist?  Is he actually supporting “mass incarceration,” which progressives tell us was an abject failure in the 1990s?   Answer:  most criminal offenders in Washington, DC are black, and most of their victims are black.  Progressives and race-baiters insist that the only way to achieve “racial justice” is to stop arresting black offenders, leaving them on the streets to find more black victims.  Where is the justice in that scenario?  By the way, Chief Craig and Mayor Muriel Bowser, who also wants the district to crack down on criminals, are both black.

On February 9th of this year Democrat Congressperson Angie Craig D-Minn was attacked in a Washington, DC elevator by a habitual criminal with 13 prior crimes.  “In every instance he got 10 days or 30 days.  Many times, the charges were completely dropped…” she told reporters.  She blamed the attack on DC’s soft-on-crime policies.  There’s an old saying that “a conservative is a liberal who got mugged.”

The “mass incarceration” resulting from locking up repeat offenders, was perhaps the most effective public policy ever adopted in the United States.  Habitual criminal laws passed in the 1980s and 90s drove violent crime rates down and kept them there through 2018.  Property crime rates dropped to levels not seen since the mid 1960s.  Hundreds of thousands of Americans were spared from becoming victims.

Many of the progressives pushing for reduced sentencing and so called “racial justice” in recent years were wearing diapers during the last crime wave and never taught how it was ended.  Those old enough to know better, who still support such reforms are either too dumb or corrupt to see what’s happening.

The winds of change are starting to blow.

 

 

 

 

1 Response

  1. Kent Scheidegger says:
    Mar 8, 2023 1:20 pm at 1:20 pm

    It shouldn’t be newsworthy that a police chief makes this statement. Yet in an era where common sense is increasingly uncommon it is, enough to be covered in a newspaper on the other side of the ocean. One place where you won’t read it, though, is the Washington Post. I searched their website. It’s not there. It doesn’t fit the narrative.