After a woman in Silver Spring was robbed of her purse and cell phone yesterday, Montgomery County Police are looking for a man who is impersonating one of their own. more ›

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 ›

The IMF and World Bank meetings are taking place again this weekend, which can only mean one things—totally unnecessary street closures! more ›

How do you go from a minor infraction to a major felony in one go? An Arlington man shows us how. more ›

If you're driving through Virginia from now on, you may have fewer speed traps to worry about. more ›

Wait, was D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier caught making meth in her home? No, thankfully—a meth lab was found in Lanier Heights last night, though. more ›

The death of a baby girl left on the doorstep of a Northeast home in January has been ruled a homicide, reports WTOP. more ›

Months after being raided by D.C. police for allegedly selling drug paraphernalia, Capitol Hemp will close the doors on its two D.C. locations in August. more ›

Responding to the mild weather and the increase of people walking and cycling to work, D.C. police officers have been out in force this week enforcing pedestrian, cycling and driving laws as part of the annual Street Smart campaign. 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 ›

For 20 minutes this afternoon, the District's 911 phone and dispatch system went down. How come? Police officials blame Pepco. more ›

Update: Please resume calling 911 in case of an emergency. 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 Prince George's County policeman did not have a properly calibrated speed gun nor could he pace Councilwoman Karen Toles for long enough to determine that she was speeding, even though he had to drive over 100 miles-per-hour to catch up to her on February 22. 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 ›

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 ›

A useful crime-mapping tool hosted by the Metropolitan Police Department will soon be back online after a six-week hiatus, reports the Washington Times. more ›

A report released today by the Justice Policy Institute finds that increased investments in education are a better long-term tool in fighting crime than more police and prisons. more ›

DCist photographer James Calder was on hand yesterday when U.S. Park Police and Occupy D.C. protesters clashed as police tried to clear part of McPherson Square to check tents for camping material. The pictures he captured are evidence of the tension, emotion and confusion that reigned during the day. more ›

Police in the District are still looking for suspects in the tragic death of an infant girl that was left outside a home in Northeast on a freezing winter night in mid-January. 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 ›

Many a movie start this way -- a newborn infant is left on someone's doorstep, most often a loving family that nurtures the child so that it can become a well-rounded adult. But the reality certainly isn't so happy. more ›

It's not looking like much came of last October's police raid of two Capitol Hemp locations in the District. 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 ›

They didn't get a rocket launcher or hand grenades, but officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and FBI did manage to seize 161 weapons and $7.2 million worth of drugs and make 70 arrests in a huge bust announced today. more ›

The two owners of Capitol Hemp turned themselves in to police this morning after they were told that a warrant had been issued for their arrest. more ›

As police continue to investigate what provoked a weekend shooting at Dupont Circle restaurant Heritage India, one member of the D.C. Council wants bars, clubs and restaurants holding after-hours events to hire off-duty police officers for additional security. more ›

This morning, a man was arrested inside the Occupy DC encampment at McPherson Square after he was found to have stolen supplies from the group's supply tent. more ›

Last week, we got a hold of the affidavit justifying the late October raids on Capitol Hemp's Adams Morgan and Chinatown locations. Yesterday, we happened across the affidavits supporting the raids on two others Adams Morgan head shops -- Shiva and B&K News Stand. more ›