Presented with little need for commentary, here is, perhaps, the oddest tweet you will see from a D.C. reporter all day, courtesy of Washington Times crime beat writer Andrea Noble. more ›

Michael Davis, the 19-year-old arrested last night in Petworth after allegedly striking a woman with a claw hammer, is the younger brother of San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis. more ›

The sidewalk outside a Bank of America on Vermont Avenue NW is the cool place to camp out these days, with five more members of Occupy D.C. arrested Friday morning after sleeping under the ATM. more ›

Seven members of Occupy D.C. have been arrested this week for blocking the sidewalk after sleeping outside a downtown Bank of America branch. It's a new tactic, but it's disputed which Occupy group thought of it first. more ›

A man walking in Columbia Heights was killed this afternoon when he was struck by a waste-removal truck in the 1400 block of Columbia Road NW. 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 ›

A pregnant woman's fetus has died after the mother was stabbed and seriously injured in a home invasion early Thursday morning in the Washington Highlands neighborhood, police said. more ›

Police said a juvenile female was arrested in connection with a stabbing attack last night in Northeast D.C. in which two of the three victims were hospitalized with their injuries, WUSA9 reports. 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 ›

The Metropolitan Police Department said at a press conference Thursday evening it is making headway in investigations of three recent violent crimes in which two victims were gay men and another was a transgender woman. more ›

A Metropolitan Police Department officer was indicted yesterday in connection with an incident last August in which he allegedly fired his service weapon in an altercation that arose from an attempt to solicit sex from a transgender prostitute. more ›

An elementary school in Adams Morgan was briefly evacuated Wednesday morning after a suspicious package containing an unidentified white powder was discovered. Police later determined that the substance was non-hazardous. 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 ›

In a morning rush hour demonstration, members of Occupy D.C. lined up outside an office building at 1300 I Street NW to protest Monsanto, the agricultural engineering giant, which has an office there. 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 ›

Police are investigating after a man's body was found dead Sunday morning just off the National Mall near the bank of the Potomac River. more ›

Several hundred protesters descended on the gates of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel earlier this afternoon to voice their displeasure with the Conservative Political Action Conference going on inside. more ›

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, a civil-rights watchdog group, released yesterday a set of emails from District officials that it claims as proof that Mayor Vince Gray's administration is "[inflating] the cost of the Occupy movement." 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 ›

MPD district boundaries are changing Sunday. Get to know your new precincts. more ›

Welcome back to work, Washington. Perhaps you're struggling to focus this morning, having only barely recovered from the weekend's Halloween festivities. Perhaps you just had a difficult time extricating yourself from your bed on this first cold morning of the year. Whatever the case may be, DCist recommends a strong cup of coffee with a dash of Rumbler to get your motor running today. The Rumbler is described as a "high-tech blaster" being used in... more ›

UPDATE: Le sigh. This story was a total canard. Looks like the police were misdialing the phone number associated with the deductions, which may actually have been for legitimate insurance payments. So. Lame. Bless you, Mark Seagraves. The WTOP reporter tips us off to a new scandal from the Metropolitan Police Department's payroll department that actually involves porn. It's almost like Seagraves knew my birthday was coming up. Apparently, at least once MPD officer has... more ›

>> The District has agreed to put a cap on the number of inmates at the D.C. Jail at 2,164. [WaPo] >> "Chapter Three: The Reason I Want to Get into the Right Lane is That It's Dangerous Over Here On the Left (And Not That I Have Failed to Sufficiently Appreciate the Grandeur of Your Magnificent Internal Combustion Vehicle)." [Megan McArdle] >> The Attorney for De'Onte Rawlings' family says he is going to... more ›

>> Right there is the Laura Sessions Stepp Credo: Laura doesn't "get it" so the "social culture" is broken. [DCeiver] >> Don't miss the ABC News coverage of the 5-year anniversary of the D.C.-area sniper shooting spree. What do you think of Lee Boyd Malvo's apology? [ABC News] >> Oh c'mon, don't you get it? Kids can say they're going to "The Library" and not be lying! It's totally hilarious. [Free Ride] >> Regarding... more ›

Written by DCist Contributor Fredo Alvarez In a 60-39 cloture vote, the U.S. Senate barely passed the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (S 1105) today as an amendment to the FY 2008 Defense Authorization Bill (HR 1585). The measure would expand protection against hate crimes to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, and would enable the Federal government to provide assistance in the investigation or prosecution of... more ›

Take a look at this map -- if you live inside the boundaries of the newly-named Police Service Area 208 (formerly PSA 306), you're now being policed by the 2nd Police District instead of the 3rd. The change actually took effect on Sunday, September 2, according to a Metropolitan Police Department announcement. The move was designed to resolve a workload imbalance between the 2nd District, which handles just 4.5 percent of emergency calls in the... more ›

The annual National Night Out is set to kick off this evening, with a host of neighborhood gatherings sponsored by the Metropolitan Police Department to choose from. The yearly event is designed to raise awareness about street crime and encourage residents to meet their neighbors by joining in on any of the planned events, or just by staying outside in their front yards or porches late in an effort to deter criminal activity. Mayor Fenty... more ›

Washington has had a love-hate relationship with the Segway for some time now. Certainly, they are useful modes of transportation -- who among us begrudges the UPS man, or even the tourists, from trying to zip around our city's streets in a more efficient manner? But at the same time, pretty much no matter what you do, if you're riding one, you look like a douchebag. This isn't to say the technology isn't cool, or... more ›

In the area around the D.C. Courthouse on Indiana Avenue NW near Judiciary Square, and we suspect elsewhere in the city, there are massive plumes of steam coming from the grates in the sidewalk. We usually don't pay any attention to the steam that regularly comes up from the grates around town, but thanks to the cold, cold, Vostok-esque weather, these are reaching higher than the surrounding buildings. Walking through them is like flying in... more ›

> > Gerald Ford, remembered. [WTOP] >> The Metropolitan Police Department alerts us that the FBI will be doing a "fly over" above Washington, DC tonight until midnight. No, we don't have the slightest idea what this means either, but why take chances? Tonight, conduct your illicit activity from the safety of your own domicile, where, as the courts seem to agree, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. >> Of course, as far as... more ›