D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has confirmed she will appear before Congress on May 16 to discuss concerns about crime in the capital city.
Ms. Bowser, a Democrat, wrote a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer that says City Administrator Kevin Donahue and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee will join her, citing the panel’s “interest in discussing crime.”
“D.C. clearly has a crime crisis,” Mr. Comer, Kentucky Republican, said last month. “Our nation’s capital has deteriorated and declined. Crime has risen dramatically. Education levels have plummeted. And the city’s finances are in disarray.” Ms. Bowser vetoed an overhaul of the D.C. criminal code that would have decreased maximum penalties for certain gun crimes and other offenses, though the D.C. Council overrode her decision and transmitted the bill to Congress for a mandatory review period.
The oversight committee received testimony from D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Council member Charles Allen, both Democrats, in late March as part of a second effort to rescind a local law that prohibited the use of neck restraints, increased access to footage from body-worn police cameras and expanded membership on the Force Review Board.
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