Pirro cites various DC soft-on-crime laws

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00:00I don't care who you are or what your politics are.

00:03Washington was not safe.

00:05It was in terms of homicides in 2024.

00:08It had the fourth largest homicide rate in the country.

00:12And why is that?

00:13When you peel back the layers of the onion, you realize it's because the people in charge

00:17in D.C. for some reason think that it's OK if you're 14 or 15 or 16 or 17, if you shoot

00:27someone, but you don't kill them, then I don't get to prosecute them.

00:30They don't come into the criminal justice system.

00:33So the first thing for me was to make a decision as to where are the hurdles?

00:39Where are we going to start?

00:41The first place is lowering the age of responsibility.

00:44In New York, recently, a 13-year-old charged with murder.

00:48When I was a D.A. in New York, I charged a 13-year-old with murder.

00:52OK, I come to D.C.

00:54You can shoot people at 17, not kill them, and go to family court.