"Bowser said in a letter to Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) that she opposed the proposal to weaken what she termed “already lenient sentencing for gun possession” by reducing the current penalties for carrying a pistol without a license and being a felon in possession of a gun."
So what is driving this desire to lessen the penalties?
"Jinwoo Charles Park, executive director of the D.C. Criminal Code Reform Commission, said in a letter to the council Monday that the bill should not be amended to increase the penalty classifications. Doing so, he said, would exacerbate racial disparities in incarceration.
“Increases in the average sentence for these offenses would have a disproportionate effect on African American defendants,” Park said."
It sounds like something a neo-Nazi would say, "Those people are criminals." Except in this case, it is an argument to lessen the penalties.
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