•    "The DC CRIMES Act represents a troubling step backward in criminal justice reform. By lowering the age threshold for youth offenders to 18 and removing judicial discretion for sentencing, the bill disregards decades of research on adolescent brain development and rehabilitation. Such measures are likely to increase racial disparities and recidivism rates, undermining public safety rather than enhancing it. Furthermore, the bill infringes upon the District of Columbia’s home rule, stripping local leaders of their authority to enact evidence-based reforms tailored to the community's needs." Source: The Sentencing Project

•    "The D.C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act is the fourth bill that the majority has brought to the floor to vilify, heckle, and micromanage the elected Mayor and Council of the District of Columbia on the appalling conceit that the distinguished Members of the Republican Conference from Florida or Kentucky or Arizona care more about public safety and public welfare in Washington, D.C., than do the 700,000 who live there and their elected officials on the D.C. Council and the Mayor. This one is even more sweeping and radical than their prior bills. It doesn’t simply overturn one specific current D.C. law. It permanently strips D.C. of authority over any of its criminal laws, making this legislation, perhaps inadvertently, I concede, the largest proposed rollback of D.C.’s authority to govern itself in nearly 30 years." Source: Rep. Jamie Raskin (Democrat, Maryland)