A safer capital

I was midway through penning a column about how the D.C. Council was sitting on a crime bill that would have made D.C. safer for you and me this summer. Based on my reporting, I was writing that the local legislature would not take up Mayor Adrian Fenty’s Omnibus Crime Bill of 2009 on Tuesday, despite a pair of hearings and general agreement among cops and many community activists that tougher laws could make the city safer. Tuesday being one of the council’s last legislative session of the season, the crime bill could have languished.

Thugs across town would have rejoiced.