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The theory back in the 90s of how you reduce crime was the the broken windows theory. Yeah. Which is that you get rid
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of the entry- level crimes and you get rid of the visible manifestations of lawlessness and chaos because when you
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create an environment in which it appears that those things are tolerated, then you will end up getting more of it.
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That was a theory in the '90s and absolutely worked. And what you've got in DC is the opposite of it. And I think
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what President Trump has said is, "Look, first of all, we're going to get rid of
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the homeless encampments. You're going to get rid of the graffiti. We're going to stop the zero bail. So once people
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get locked up, they're going to stay in jail. And we're going to start treating these teenage criminals as you we're
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going to punish them. We're not going to let them off the hook. If they're committing adult crimes, there's going
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to be adult punishments." This is the right direction to go if you want to reverse this lawless system in DC. And I
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think it's going to have an impact very, very quickly. One of the problems with crime is that is a local problem. It's
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been very bad in blue cities and Republicans just haven't had power there in order to effectuate a change that
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they could point to as a solution. And I think that DC provides that opportunity.