What Next - The Hysteria Over D.C.’s New Crime Bill
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
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Summary
The Revised Criminal Code Act is a major overhaul to D.C.’s criminal code that critics say will clog the courts with low-level crimes and fill the streets with criminals. Slate’s legal expert doesn’t see the data to support any of that.
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate senior writer covering courts and the law.
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| 0:36.0 | Mark, do you like getting into fights on Twitter? |
| 0:39.0 | I hate it. |
| 0:41.0 | I really do. Honestly, it makes me feel like I'm going over the top of a roller coaster |
| 0:47.0 | and plummeting to the bottom. It makes my stomach drop. |
| 0:50.0 | Mark Joseph Stern writes about courts and the law for slate. |
| 0:54.0 | It is one of my least favorite things to do in the world. |
| 0:56.0 | And I really try to avoid it. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay, well, you try to avoid it. |
| 1:01.0 | So why do you keep doing it? |
| 1:03.0 | I really think I have a good track record here except for the past week, |
| 1:08.0 | which is an exception. |
| 1:11.0 | Mark made this exception because of an overheated debate he saw brewing |
| 1:16.0 | about of all things, Washington DC's new criminal code. |
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