Washington D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser (D) appeared before Congress to testify about rising crime in the nation's capital.

Bowser appeared before the House Oversight Committee to testify about crime in the nation’s capital on Thursday in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard to clean up the streets. 

The hearing quickly devolved into chaos as Republican committee members touted the severe drop in crime as a result of Trump's decision.

On the opposite side, Democrat members complained about Trump overstepping his bounds in deploying the National Guard despite the fact that it was a Democrat mayor who allowed D.C. to become so chaotic.

Appearing alongside Bowser were D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, and former White House gun violence prevention deputy director Gregory Jackson Jr., who all answered questions on the state of the Capitol.

Trump Crime Crackdown

Trump federalized D.C. for a month and deployed the National Guard to control crime, mainly because Washington D.C.'s metropolitan Police Department was handcuffed by D.C.'s Democrat leadership.

Furthermore, D.C.'s law enforcement had been forbidden from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which was the final straw for Trump, who cracked down hard.

Bowser and her Democrat cohorts used manipulated crime statistics as well as a vague 30-year decline in violent crime. Crime is down in areas of the country since the famously violent 90s, but that hides the fact that crime has skyrocketed in Democrat cities.

Soft-on-crime policies pushed by leftist DA's and Democrat mayors has made many of America's most recognizable cities violent hellholes where criminals prey on innocent and are immediately released due to policies like cashless bail.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb argued during the hearing that, "Sending masked agents in unmarked cars to pick people up off the streets; flooding our neighborhoods with armed national guardsmen untrained in local policing; attempting a federal takeover of our police force — none of these are durable, lasting solutions for driving down crime."

Schwalb is right of course, it isn't a lasting solution to enforce the law for just a month and then stop enforcing it when Trump leaves town. It's Schwalb and his ilk who refuse to crack down on criminals that create an environment where crime festers.

Lasting Solutions

A lasting solution would be to remove Democrats from power in D.C. entirely and actually lock criminals up and aggressively prosecute crimes until the crime rates collapse.

D.C.'s police department may be too politicized to survive this crisis as whistleblowers revealed that D.C.'s city council was “cooking the books" to make the city's crime problem more palatable.

Democrats have tried to argue that funding cuts in the latest funding bill passed by Congress hit D.C.'s community violence intervention programs leading to the crime surge.

Of course, that argument is patently absurd as the only real lasting solution to crime is being tough-on-crime and punishing criminals. Intervention programs come after the fact and Democrats refuse to learn that obvious lesson.