In a couple of weeks or so, the Senate will return and unveil a bill for sentencing "reform," the liberal and libertarian code for "mass sentencing reduction." As has recently become clear, "reformers" by no means intend to stop with their fabled "low-level, non-violent" offender, although he is their poster child. As they have now made plain -- taking a pre-victory victory lap -- they seek the mass release of violent criminals. As so often in Washington, DC, this flies in the face of the ugly, everyday reality "reformers" would see at their doorstep if they cared to look.
Thus today's Washington Post story, aptly if shockingly titled, "Straight up execution: Crime surges across the District."
This is the gist of it. Violent crime, and violent criminals, are getting back in business in a way we have not seen in years. This includes, but is scarcely limited to, murder. At the moment this is happening, many of the people we send to Washington are proposing the first (and understandably half-concealed) step toward restoring leniency to these proven criminals. As we know from decades of statistics, not to mention more recent news, when released, they're going to take up where they left off.
Ordinary citizens often wonder what the heck is going on in Congress's thinking. They have good reason to wonder.
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