WASHINGTON — DC’s City Council has passed a law that will give the city’s attorney general new powers to hold dumpers accountable because the threat of criminal charges has not been enough.
The threat of criminal prosecution, jail time, and neighbors with cameras trying to collect evidence has not been an effective deterrent, according to Dolly Davis, the President of Pope Branch Park Restoration Alliance.
Davis calls the illegal dumping that happens near the park and open space near Fairlawn Avenue Southeast in here neighborhood “environmental apartheid.”…