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Jeanine Pirro: “They are allowing young people to... commit crimes…”

Featuring: Jeanine Pirro, Republican | United States Attorney for the District of Columbia | National

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Published | Video Starts at 08:00

By the locals. Too soft on crime. Too soft on crime is the. Is. This is a kind way of saying it. What they are doing is They are allowing young people to... commit crimes... allowing them to go into the juvenile justice system in the family court, where the focus is not punishment, deterrence, or retribution, it's rehabilitation. But that rehabilitation is yoga and ice cream social. There's no accountability. And so these young punks end up with a rap sheet a mile long. (08:00–08:17)

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Asserts that the D.C. juvenile justice system focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment.

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