DC is getting the crime and disorder it voted for

If you want to buy toothpaste, soap, or laundry detergent at the Columbia Heights CVS, good luck. The shelves are bare. But if you exit the store and walk outside, you can buy all of those items, with cash only, from street vendors.

Asked last week if her administration was making any effort to see if all the items the street vendors were selling were legally obtained, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser casually explained, “Oh, well the law has changed. I don’t know if you are aware but the council has decriminalized vending. So you can do what you want in terms of vending.”