For Nasia Israel, President Donald Trump’s vow to crack down on D.C. crime within the wake of an alleged assault on a former DOGE worker stirs blended feelings.
“It comes at their entrance door, and now you wanna do one thing about it?” she requested.
Two years in the past, her brother Reggie Brown was brutally crushed to dying on Georgia Avenue NW by 5 women, ages 12 to fifteen. Brown was battling most cancers and weighed simply 110 kilos.
“The place had been you politicians, the place had been you? The place was the president. The place had been you folks at when all these folks right here in D.C., all these moms’ youngsters been killed within the streets by juveniles, being carjacked by juveniles?” Israel requested.
The ladies who attacked Brown had been all tried and located accountable as juveniles. Below D.C. regulation, juvenile offenders can solely be held till they’re 21, so the women all will get out throughout the subsequent few years.
Israel stated she desires D.C. crime penalties to be harder in order that juveniles who commit homicide will be held for all times. On the identical time, she stated she worries in regards to the enhance in federal regulation enforcement patrols and the opportunity of police brutality.
“It’s just a bit an excessive amount of. Simply want to vary the legal guidelines. You don’t want extra folks coming in killing,” she stated.
One other relative of a criminal offense sufferer informed News4 he’s completely satisfied in regards to the concept of an even bigger federal police presence.
“The mayor appears to not have sufficient management of the actions which are arising,” Bernard Brown stated.
His 3-year-old granddaughter Ty’ah Settles was shot and killed final year whereas driving in her household’s automobile in Garfield Heights. The case nonetheless hasn’t been solved. D.C. police and the FBI are each providing rewards for data.
Brown stated he doesn’t need to see D.C. police federalized in the long run. However for now he agrees they need assistance from exterior companies.
“I don’t like the thought of the takeover however I like the thought of getting some construction,” he stated.
He stated he believes extra psychological well being companies are essential for addressing violence as crime within the District continues to be within the nationwide highlight.
