Washington D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith gave a briefing to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday as crime spikes in the nation’s capital.
The closed-door briefing between a bipartisan group of lawmakers and the Washington leaders was described as “productive” by committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in a statement following the meeting on Wednesday.
“Today’s briefing with D.C. Mayor Bowser and Police Chief Smith was a productive and bipartisan discussion about rising crime in the nation’s capital,” Comer said. “The crime statistics alone are shocking. Homicides, property crime, carjackings are all historically high and soft-on-crime measures have only made the situation worse.”
He also pinned the blame for the crime…
