Mitchell Sobolevsky told House lawmakers that if ‘you’re not careful in violent cities like D.C., you may end up just as another statistic’
A man who was robbed at gunpoint on the streets of the nation’s capital told House lawmakers Thursday that the individual responsible for the crime had his sentence reduced and took to robbing others once he was released.
Speaking to members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, Mitchell Sobolevsky described the Washington, D.C., robbery and insisted that soft-on-crime policies and prosecutions contributed to the incident he found himself involved in.
“Some may say it is victim blaming, but the reality is crime exists. If you’re not careful in violent cities like D.C., you may end up just as another statistic,” he told lawmakers on Capitol Hill during his testimony.