In the Mayor’s budget proposal, violence interruption programs in Ward 1 are cut in half, the Ward 1 Cure the Streets program is entirely cut, and the proposed plan for next fiscal year adopts a “ward-wide model” that will not help us prevent crew-based violence.

Last month D.C.’s crime lab regained accreditation for its fingerprinting unit, the third of its five units to be reaccredited since all of them lost theirs more than three years ago.