Criminal Fights Crime

My sister is having a bad summer.

In fact, even as I’m typing this, Peggy is at D.C. police headquarters.

We had dinner in Georgetown recently and when we came back to my house, where her car was parked, she was short a Buick.

Two polite officers who responded to our call said they could do little, amid a rash of brazen car thefts by teenagers.

One officer said that, even if they saw the perp driving in her car, they could not chase him, because of laws passed by the D.C. Council.

Kids — some too young to drive legally — can just hot-wire cars to go home. Two 15-year-olds are charged in a carjacking attack on a former DOGE employee that helped set off President Trump’s crusade on crime in D.C. The council has been notoriously lax toward juvenile offenders.

Peggy had always loved that Buick, which she bought because Peyton Manning was the pitchman. We figured we’d never see it again.