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D.C. criminal code revision exposes political divides on crime

Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee speaks with District of Columbia councilmember Charles Allen about the rewrite of the District’s criminal code, which Republicans have been using as a political cudgel against Democrats for being “soft on crime.”

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