Keeping criminals in jail and not letting them loose among the general populace is a way to reverse the increasing homicide rate in Washington, according to Robert Contee, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
“The things that we have been doing is locking up bad guys, taking guns off the street. What we got to do if we really want to see homicides go down is keep bad guys with guns in jail. Because when they [are] in jail, they can’t be in community shooting people … That’s the thing that we need to do different—we need to keep violent people in jail,” Contee said while speaking along with Mayor Muriel Bowser at a press conference on March 6.
