Amid escalating crime in the nation's capital, President Joe Biden went to bat for a "Police reform" law passed by the D.C. Council by vetoing a bipartisan congressional measure that would have overturned it.
Now, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to roll back the same law that Biden protected.
"Unfortunately, President Biden refused to stand by the Metropolitan Police Department and allowed the D.C. Council's anti-police bill to go into effect," House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told The Daily Signal in a written statement Tuesday.
"As a result, crime in the District has continued to surge and now the D.C. mayor is even trying to roll the D.C. Council's disastrous law back," Comer said.
Biden signed a measure-also pushed by the oversight panel to reverse a D.C. law reducing sentencing for felonies, including carjackings and burglaries.
If Mayor Bowser wants to make a real difference to D.C. crime rates, she would completely roll back all of the D.C. Council's anti-police efforts and empower law enforcement to tackle rising crime as they see fit.
The mayor released a public statement Monday about a proposal to amend the D.C. police reform law.
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