When your whole city’s a toilet, why not embrace it?
The D.C. Council is expected to take the first of two votes Tuesday on a massive rewrite of its criminal code. If passed, the bill would eliminate most mandatory minimum sentences, allow for jury trials in almost all misdemeanor cases and reduce the maximum penalties for offenses such as burglaries, carjackings and robberies.
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Assume that there’ll be a lot more burglaries, carjackings and robberies.
Not to mention public urination.
[Why didn’t San Francisco try that before spending $1.7 million on a single toilet? Oh wait … they did. — Ed]
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