'I DON'T NEED ANY MORE STATS': Jeanine Pirro highlights 'silent victims' killed in DC

As we mentioned, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is talking right now in Washington, D.C., pointing out those who have been affected and killed by violent crimes in Washington, D.C. She's right now talking about teen crime.

Listen. But what this makes clear to me is that there is a whole community that is suffering because of the violent crime in this district. And anyone who wants to tell me the crime is down and that we don't need an emergency focus on crimes of violence, all they need to do is take a look at this and talk to the loved ones and the family

members of these individuals, all shot and killed long before their time. Now over here are the individuals who were shot and killed under the age of 20 all teenagers in 2025 and the number here is 16. Again all members of the minority community here. I don't know how many of these cases have been solved, but what I can tell you is again, it's guns on the streets. It's individuals who are not concerned about accountability, who don't

have any reason to fear law enforcement. I am here today to tell you that on behalf of all of these victims, all of these families, that they're going to be accountable, that we are going to make a difference, and that we are going to make sure that law enforcement is focused on these innocent now silent victims of crime in the district. Anywhere else? All I know is we rank in deaths two years ago it was one of the

fourth highest we're the fourth highest, we were the fourth highest in the United States. I don't need any more statistics. All I need are people to recognize that these were vibrant human beings cut down because of illegal guns. I guarantee you that every one of these shootings was with an illegal gun. All right?

And I guarantee you that every one of these individuals was shot and killed by someone who felt that they were never going to be caught. And I want to send a message that we are going to catch you, that we are going to change the laws, that if you're 14, 15, 16, 17, we're going to bring you into the justice system. No more of this DC, you know, council, oh, you know, if they're under 16 or if they're under 19 or if they're under 25, we'll give them probation.

No more.

I'm done about right there, but what can you conceivably do as the DC US attorney to address those laws, address the DC Crime Lab, which is not accredited, and also at the same time address some of the prosecutorial issues you talked about?

OK. What can you conceivably do? Those are great questions. Number one, the DC Crime Lab is now accredited and validated very recently. So Dr. Diaz has communicated that to us,

and we are working with the DC Crime Lab. Our concern is making sure that we have enough people who are able to analyze the DNA and all of the testing that we need to have done. That's number one. Number two, as it relates to prosecution,

I have been very clear that Title 16 is not enough. Under Title 16, if you are 16 or 17 years of age, we can get you for rape, one, murder, robbery, one, burglary, one, but if you shoot someone and don't kill them, I don't have jurisdiction. It goes to the Attorney General, the State Attorney General, Brian Schwab, and the focus is family court rehabilitation.

Now, I was a family court judge in New York for a short period of time. The mission there is not punishment, it's rehabilitation. As evidenced by, do we have those posters? Yeah, we had a poster where they, what you get is yoga and you get ice cream socials in family court. Well, I'm done with yoga and ice cream socials.

We've got to change the law to bring them into the justice system. We've got to get rid of the three statutes or three laws passed by the DC Council. Number one is the Youth Rehabilitation Act, where you basically say with the Youth Rehabilitation Act, that what we're going to do is we're going to say, if you're sentenced and you're under the age of 25, that the judge can give you probation irrespective of what the crime is.

That's nonsense. And that's why a judge, and you're tired of hearing about me say this, that's why a judge gave a 19-year-old two, three weeks ago, and I wrote an op-ed piece, gave a 19 year old probation, and I understand it's two years probation to go to college with no mandate, for getting on a public bus with an illegal gun, shooting an individual in the chest, which to me is intent to kill, and he walked away after we convicted him, he walked away with no jail time. If

that's what you want in this district then I'm the wrong person to be United States Attorney. Number one, the Incarceration Reduction Act. The Incarceration Reduction Act that the DC left-leaning council passed says if you're 25 years old and you were sentenced to 15 years as a young kid for probably murder even a serial murderer we can let you out if you're 25 we can let you out because not because you're rehabilitated

not because the offense wasn't that bad, but because we can. And that's gotta go. All right? And the third thing is record sealing. I go through all of the effort to get a conviction, and they want to seal the convictions. They want to say, we want to seal convictions after five years.

If I'm a mother, and thank God my kids are older, if I'm a mother, I want to seal convictions after five years. If I'm a mother, and thank God my kids are older, if I'm a mother I want to know if a nanny has an assault conviction. If I'm an employer I want to know if this person has been convicted of larceny or petty larceny. Or if say I'm not in a public school but I got a private like teaching a tennis group. I need to know if this guy's a predator, a pedophile. Everything about the D.C. Council's focus

is defendant-oriented. I'm oriented to these people, and the people of the district are as well.

You just walked through the...

...this federal takeover that you can...

You talked about a little bit...

Well, you've talked a lot about it, but any special... I don't have any special powers. I wish I did.

Can you also talk about where you stand on hiring prosecutors and judges?

I am, I am, you know, I'm not going to bore you with the facts. That's don't quote me on that. That was off the record. I can only hire during certain periods once there's been an ad or some kind of posting and then I can hire. Okay, I'm doing it, I'm doing the best I can.

The president has given me the permission to hire. This is an office that has been neglected and I'll say it publicly, it's been neglected. With people signing contracts, they didn't know what they were signing. It just kind of ran on its own. Not anymore. This is an office where nobody seemed to care that we were down 90 lawyers, 60 investigators

and paralegals. I do. And so my effort is to get people who want to work in the nation's capital, want to work in the largest United States Attorney's office in the country, and the best office. Because we're not just federal prosecutors, we're local prosecutors. We get down and dirty in street crime.

And that is what really motivates a lot of my prosecutors.

You just walked through the changes you'd like to see from the punitive aspects. What about preventative? Do you or the president plan to do anything to address the root causes of crime in DC such as truancy?

My job is to try to heal the victims and prosecute the criminal. Everybody else can deal with rehabilitating the individual. I honestly am not concerned about why they commit crimes. My concern is if they commit crimes. My concern is the victims of the crimes. That's my job as a US attorney.

Go ahead. But just follow up on that quickly.

One of these cases is a felony one. And right now DC Superior Court judges are scheduling felony one trials in 2027. In part because there are 13 vacancies right now that's going to grow in January. The President has only nominated one DC Superior Court judge. It's a process that takes a while with Congress because of D.C.'s rules. Can you talk to the President about this? Is the White House moving forward with more nominees? You're going to need these judges to get these done.

As recently as yesterday, I spoke with the President, and I have spoken to the President before about these vacancies. The President wants these vacancies filled as soon as possible, because like everyone in this room, it's common sense. It's not fair to the victims, to the families, it's not fair to the defendant. Why should the defendant who's charged with a crime have to live with a case for three years because there's not enough judges? We're all on the same page about what makes sense and what's fair and so we're working on that. There's a whole thing

with the Judicial Nominating Commission. And then they have to get approved. And then we have to get the Senate to approve.

When can we expect step one?

You can ask the Senate.

No, no, the name's from the president. He asked enough. When can we expect names from the Supreme Court?

Soon, very soon.

Weeks?

Soon. OK, you're out of time. That means he's had enough. Goodbye. Thank you. I want you to report on it.

But you said you said it's guns.

All right. You've been listening to Jean, Jeanine Pirro, speaking there on the crime crisis in Washington, D.C., detailing their efforts in particular, focusing on some of the younger criminals. D.C., detailing their efforts in particular, focusing on some of the younger criminals.

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