For months, DC residents have watched federal officers and out-of-state National Guard units patrol their neighborhoods, fueling a surge in arrests that has burdened court dockets and pushed the city’s jail population steadily upward.

Now, with the government only just reopened after a record-long shutdown and Washington still buzzing over Congress muscling through a bill compelling the Justice Department to release portions of the Epstein files, lawmakers have returned to one of Donald Trump’s favorite targets: crime in the District of Columbia.

On Wednesday, House Republicans, joined by a small bloc of Democrats, approved two bills that would bring back cash bail, expand automatic pretrial detention, and roll back much of the police accountability framework DC adopted in 2022. The prop

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