Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is seeking a third term in office amid spiraling homicide and violent crime rates. Her progressive challengers have accused her of mishandling public safety issues and criticized her push to hire more police officers.
Crime and public safety have dominated the campaign. Homicides have risen for four years straight, and the 2021 murder count of 227 was the highest since 2003. In January, a candidate for the D.C. Council, Nate Fleming, was carjacked at gunpoint.“I don’t think the police are the end-all solution for reducing crime,” Councilman Trayon White said during a June 1 debate. “During the height of the crack epidemic, D.C. had 5,000-plus police officers, and it never decreased any crime.
Bowser is campaigning on her experience and leadership as the city emerges from the pandemic and on her history asongoing quest for statehood. She blames the D.C. Council, including her challengers, of hamstringing her efforts to rein in crime. Chuck Thies, a longtime district political consultant, identifies a turning point as the wave of protest and upheaval in the summer of 2020 after George Floyd’s death in police custody. Some mass protests in Washington and elsewhere turned destructive, while calls to defund the police became more vocal in Democratic circles.
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