When you react with strength with regard to crime, when you lock up murderers and rapists and child molesters, you get fewer violent crimes, number one, because of deterrence, number two, because of prevention. You get the bad guys off the street. In D.C. the murder rate has consistently been one of the highest in the entire country. Among large Cities, it is 27 homicides per 100,000 residents each year. That is higher than Bogota, Colombia, D.C. not only that, but if you look at vehicle theft, vehicle theft is 842 per 100,000 residents, which is three times the national average. (26:53–26:59)
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Asserts that D.C. has one of the highest murder rates in the U.S.
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