Restoring Law and Order in High-Crime U.S. Cities

House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Oversight · November 20, 2025

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Chair opens the subcommittee, authorizes the chair to declare recess, leads members through pledge and moment of silence and sets the hearing topic. He signals that opening statements will be entered in the record. (Chairman Van Drew)

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A House Judiciary subcommittee hearing examined causes and responses to violent crime in U.S. cities, with Republican members urging tougher enforcement and Democratic members and witnesses emphasizing evidence-based interventions and fiscal/contextual drivers. Witnesses included criminal-justice researchers, a former NYPD officer, a grieving mother, and a Rutgers dean.

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