DC Home Rule

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/4/2023
  

  DC Crime Bill Flap Repeats Congress's Refusal of Home Rule 55 Years Ago

  by Kyla Sommers

  In the period after the rebellions provoked by the assassination of Martin Luther King, Congress pushed "tough on crime" measures on the district even as the local government sought to reduce racial inequality in criminal justice. "Tough on Crime" won, with results that are still present today.