DC Police Chief Robert Contee: ‘We need to keep violent people in jail’
Conn Carroll
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Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee has a commonsense solution to rising homicides in Washington: “We need to keep violent people in jail.”
Asked at a press conference Monday if he expected the Council of the District of Columbia to change its approach to crime now that homicides have risen 30% so far this year, Contee responded, “What we gotta do if we really want to see homicides go down is keep bad guys with guns in jail.”
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“Because when they are in jail, they can’t be in communities shooting people,” Contee continued. “So when people talk about what we’re gonna do different or what we should do different or what we need to do different, that’s the thing that we need to do different.”
“We need to keep violent people in jail,” Contee added. “Right now, the average homicide suspect has been arrested 11 times prior to them committing a homicide. That is a problem.”
Eleven times. The average homicide suspect has already been arrested 11 times before killing someone.
Contee is dead right. Eleven arrests before someone kills someone is simply unacceptable. We cannot arrest criminals, let them go without consequences, and then pretend to be surprised when crime goes up.
After President Joe Biden’s cowardly flip-flop on the D.C. Council’s latest crime bill, which would have reduced criminal penalties for a slew of crimes, the council has since announced that it will try again.
Hopefully, this time, it will focus on keeping violent criminals in jail and not on bogus social justice matters.