D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced this morning that 19-year-old Michael Davis was arrested last night in Petworth after attacking a woman with a hammer. Police are investigating whether he's linked to three other similar attacks in the area. more ›

Cell phone service providers and the FCC joined with police commissioners in D.C. today to announce new initiatives to tamp down on the theft of smart phones and electronic gadgets. more ›

Police arrested a suspect in a March 11 shooting at the IHOP in Columbia Heights neighborhood in which the victim was the subject of anti-gay harassment, Mayor Gray and D.C. Police Chief Lanier announced Monday. more ›

Just as many other cities across the country, D.C. has been hit by a rash of robberies, a large part targeting people with iPhones and other electronic gadgets. Now D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has a message for national cell phone service providers—step up and help stop the thefts. more ›

Nearly 700 people marched through the streets last night in response to recent violent crimes targeting gay and transgender victims. The march garnered the attention of D.C. Council members and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier. more ›

If someone recently stole an iPhone or iPad from you, call the D.C. police—they may well have recovered during a massive sting operation. more ›

Yesterday D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Vince Gray announced a number of arrests in connection to thefts of electronic gadgets, which have spiked in 2012. more ›

Speaking on WTOP today, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said that the Metropolitan Police Department had gone below the 3,800-officer threshold. more ›

A leading member of the District's transgender community told the D.C. Council today that he has little faith in the Metropolitan Police Department and Chief Cathy Lanier when crimes against transgender persons are committed. more ›

Last week's news that D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier was juking the stats on the city's homicide clearance rate by including years-old cases may have seemed like a ding in her otherwise strong armor, but she chose to fight back over the weekend and won herself a partial victory when the Post published a lengthy clarification to its story. more ›

The AP reports that a former D.C. police commander plans to sue the city claiming he was demoted for saying that a police escort last year for Charlie Sheen was a routine operation. more ›

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has been using some creative accounting methods to make it look like police are closing more murder cases than they actually have. more ›

After a rash of robberies has put residents and police in the District on high alert, everyone seemed to sign a breath of relief last night when police announced that they had made two arrests. But then there were three more robberies this morning. more ›

Most everyone has a smart phone these days, and plenty of people aren't discrete about using them out in the open. But for D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, every smart phone user is a potential victim, and today she joined Mayor Vince Gray in warning of a citywide uptick in robberies and thefts of phones and other electronic gadgets. more ›

Joining a pair of big-city mayors and another high-ranking civic official yesterday, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier swapped recent murder and youth crime prevention statistics at a panel during the U.S. Conference of Mayors' winter meeting. more ›

After two men were stabbed early this morning outside Mood Lounge on Ninth Street NW, Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) is calling for the troubled establishment to close. more ›

With only a few days left in 2011, the District is likely to see fewer murders this year than at any point in the last five decades. more ›

Nearly one year into his mayoralty, Vince Gray's report card is in, and it's not pretty. Kind of. A poll released overnight by Clarus reports sagging approval ratings for both the mayor and the D.C. Council. more ›

Yesterday, we discussed how D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has sparingly used her emergency powers to shut down bars and restaurants after violent incidents. Now it looks like Heritage India, the site of a fight which led to a shooting that left one man dead last weekend, is faced with much more than having its doors shuttered for 96 hours. more ›

If you own a bar or a restaurant and a fight breaks out, just shooing the troublemakers out the door may not be enough. If things get worse once they get outside, you may see your business shut down by the police. more ›

Yesterday, in response to a march on and sit-in at her department's headquarters, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier said that the Occupy DC protests had gotten "increasingly confrontational and violent." This morning, the Occupy DC media team has struck back. more ›

During a D.C. Council hearing on Friday, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier cited new police radio scanning technologies and constantly emerging threats as reasons underpinning MPD's recent decision to encrypt radio communications. more ›

It's tough to measure how much being the chancellor of the District's public school system is actually worth, but Kaya Henderson's current salary seems to offer a hint: $275,000 a year, plus a $12,500 signing bonus. more ›

This morning, Mayor Vince Gray and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier updated the public on the investigations into several shootings which took place last night. more ›

Via Homicide Watch D.C., The Daily Beast reports that the District has become something of an international model on how to combat high murder rates. more ›

After a year in which the District trained no new police officers, the Metropolitan Police Department today welcomed 35 new police recruits to its training academy in Southwest. more ›

Despite the resplendent weather, today may be one of those days to hole up indoors, shut the windows and wait until Monday morning rolls around. On top of the many events taking place around town this weekend, closing many roadways around the city -- not forgetting Metro closures as well -- a 60 percent spike in suspicious activity reports this weekend could cause more problems. In an announcement made today, police chief Cathy Lanier noted an increase of 60 percent in incoming reports related to the recent elevated terror threat. more ›

If George Orwell and Steve Jobs joined forces, they likely would have come up iWatch, the new anti-terrorism initiative rolled out this week by the Metropolitan Police Department. more ›

The 19-year-old that police arrested in connection with an attack on a group of lesbian women outside the Columbia Heights Metro station on July 30 has now been charged with a hate crime. more ›

Chief Cathy Lanier's on the war path. In addition to threatening to fire several police officers involved in a recent incident in Columbia Heights, Lanier has handed Commander Hilton Burton -- who sharply criticized Lanier during a Council hearing on the Charlie Sheen police escort fiasco -- a demotion. more ›