As RedState reported, a well-known Department of Government Efficiency staffer was brutally beaten after he rushed to stop a mob of teen boys from attacking a woman on Monday night. That led to President Donald Trump threatening to "federalize" the city if the left-wing leadership of Washington, D.C. didn't start taking the crime epidemic in the city seriously. 

SEE: Irate Donald Trump Threatens to 'Federalize' Washington, D.C. 

Newly confirmed D.C. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is now running with that cause. Appearing on Fox News, she lit into the various initiatives pushed in the nation's capital that have caused youth crime to explode. Those include things like the "Second Chance Act" and the "Incarceration Reduction Amendment," both of which have led to violent teenage criminals being immediately kicked back out onto the street without being charged or having their charges dropped. 

PIRRO: We've got carjackings that are up 111 percent. The problem in D.C., President Trump, in his effort to make D.C. safe and beautiful, said to me, "I want you to enforce the law, to make sure there's accountability." And I spoke to the president yesterday at length about what is going on here. I said, "If you're 14, 15, 16, or 17 years old, you get coddled, as you do in most American Democrat cities. So I can't charge these people. 

This young man who worked at the White House was beaten to a pulp. He's got a broken nose. He's got a severe concussion. He's battered all over his head, okay, by a gang of thugs, punks, ten of them, I believe. Two of them have been arrested. Two 15-year-olds. None of them come to my office, Laura, because they're not considered criminals. They go to family court, where the effort is rehabilitation. The D.C. council, and the president is right, they've got to stop their coddling. 

This is not a new problem in D.C. Anyone who has lived in the city knows this has been going on for the better part of two decades. I had Metro PD officers tell me that they didn't even bother to make arrests anymore because they knew charges wouldn't be brought. That led to these roving bands of teenagers committing horrendous crimes without any accountability whatsoever, and instead of responding to the problem, it has only gotten worse. 

At no point in the last ten years or so has any Democrat who runs D.C. stopped to think, "Hey, maybe we should try something different here." Instead, the George Floyd riots only made things worse, as "social justice" became an even bigger litmus test for the left. 

PIRRO: We've got to lower the age of responsibility to 14. I'm tired of having these kids commit crimes and their crews, not gangs in D.C. We've got an intern, you said it in your open, he's an intern in college and he gets shot going out for McDonald's at 10:30 at night. This kid is trying to help his girlfriend or his friend to a car. He gets assaulted, and but for a cop going by, they would have, had they gotten him on the ground, they would have stomped him and finished him. This has to end. 

The council has this Youth Incarceration Act, where we had a guy who shot a kid on a bus, not justified, with an illegal gun. You know what the sentence was? Probation. The judge said, "Go to college."

It's out of control, and it needs to end. These "social justice" programs do nothing but ensure there are no consequences for their actions. Giving violent youths probation isn't helping them. It's locking them into a lifestyle of crime so that some elites can virtue signal about how much they supposedly care. The moral inversion is disgusting and harmful. 

PIRRO: They need to understand that enough is enough, that we're gonna put them in jail or some kind of youth rehabilitation detention facility, and not allow the D.C. Council, one of whom I just recently indicted, to take cover for these kids. It's time to end it. That's what the president wants. That's what we're gonna do.

Pirro sent a letter to the D.C. Council on Wednesday demanding that they repeal the aforementioned acts that put these kids back on the streets. 

That seems like a polite warning shot, giving the council a chance to save face and do the right thing to protect their residents. Now, we'll see how they respond. If they thumb their noses at Pirro, then you can expect the administration to escalate even further, including federalizing youth crimes so that the DOJ can prosecute them directly.