Unique way of cleaning up Congress

Michael Grunwald of the Washington Post writes Bad Neighborhood
How Cops Would Clean Up Congress's Back Rooms, in which he makes some pretty interesting statements:

Except for one bad neighborhood here in Washington. It is enduring a crime wave unparalleled in recent memory, and even though its leaders are making noises about cleaning it up, many experts remain skeptical that its culture of recidivism can be reformed. Then again, the neighborhood in question, the U.S. Congress, has always inspired skepticism.

The scandals swirling around Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- as well as the plea bargain by California GOP Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham on bribery charges -- have bolstered Mark Twain's hypothesis that America has no native criminal class except Congress. As new pay-for-policy allegations emerge about representatives with made-for-cartoon names like Doolittle, DeLay and Ney, conventional wisdom is congealing around the notion that Congress is what it is, and can't be changed.

But that was once conventional wisdom about New York, too. "The most important thing we've learned since the mid-'90s is that there's plenty we can do to clean up bad neighborhoods," said Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin. It turns out that aggressive policing really can defeat an anything-goes mentality, that entrenched criminal cultures really can be reformed, that potential offenders tend not to offend when they believe their crimes will be witnessed, reported and punished. "At some point, people have to say: Enough is enough," said Carnegie Mellon University criminologist Alfred Blumstein, author of "The Crime Drop in America."


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