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A former FBI special agent said that Washington, D.C.'s far-left policies surrounding crime backfired, forcing President Donald Trump to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department.

In December 2016, the D.C. Council passed the Comprehensive Youth Justice Amendment Act, which banned life without parole for juveniles, eliminated mandatory minimums for juveniles tried as adults, allowed for "sentence review" for individuals who have served at least 20 years for crimes committed as a minor and more.

The act also encouraged counseling for youth offenders as opposed to a prison sentence and offered a victim-offender mediation program rather than prosecution for certain crimes.

In 2018, the D.C. Council updated the Youth Re

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