Fighting Crime And Violence In The District Of Columbia

Author : United States Committee On Th Judiciary
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330324349
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Combating Crime in the District of Columbia written by United States Committee On Th Judiciary and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Combating Crime in the District of Columbia: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, June 22, 1995 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, in room 2237, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Bill McCollum (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Bob McCollum, Stephen E. Buyer, Howard Coble, Fred Heineman, Ed Bryant of Tennessee, Steve Chabot, Robert C. Scott, and Sheila Jackson Lee. Also present: Representative Thomas M. Davis and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. Staff present: Paul J. McNulty, chief counsel; Glenn R. Schmitt, counsel; Daniel J. Bryant, assistant counsel; Aerin D. Dunkle, research assistant; Audray Clement, secretary; and Tom Diaz, minority counsel. Opening Statement of Chairman McCollum Mr. McCollum. This hearing of the Subcommittee on Crime will come to order. Over a 6-hour period last Monday night and early Tuesday morning of this week, 18 people were shot or stabbed in the District of Columbia. Yet, when Tom Blagbum, the city's civilian director of community policing, heard the news, he stated, "In the context of what's occurred in recent years, it's pretty much more of the same." More of the same? Those were his words. Mr. Blagbum did not misspeak. Regrettably, he's right, but I submit to you that when 18 people being shot or stabbed over a 6-hour period could be characterized as more of the same, we've all received a call to action. The purpose of today's hearing is to focus on ways that Congress and the District might together take action to combat crime in the District of Columbia. We meet this morning, Members of Congress, District government officials, and community leaders, with a vitally important task: to consider how we might work in partnership to improve public safety in our Capital City. As the tragic violence of the beginning of the week reminds us, violent crime fueled by crack-related violence and rising juvenile crime has become a way of life in too many neighborhoods in the District of Columbia. Violent crime, quite simply, is unacceptably at high levels today here in our city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.