Fenty drops the ball on council crime bill

Mayor Adrian Fenty doesn’t care that much about crime in the nation’s capital. He can’t be bothered by the fact that gangs are making some Washingtonians afraid to walk from their door to the playground or supermarket or Metro.

How else are we to interpret the mayor’s lack of attention to the crime bill he introduced last fall? Council members spent Tuesday afternoon debating ways to eviscerate his attempt at enacting an emergency bill for the bloody summer months; Fenty was not around.