First they went after the red-light runners. Then they went after the speeders. Now the District is set to use its increasing stock of city-wide surveillance cameras to crack down on illegal dumping, according to the Washington Times. Four cameras, each costing $6,000, will be deployed around the city to nab illegal dumpers in the act, allowing the District to more often levy fines reaching $25,000 and including the possible confiscation of the dumping offender’s car. So what will they start using cameras on next? Public urination? Disorderly conduct? Will there be no laws District residents can break with reckless abandon? What are the city’s careless, lazy, and dirty to be left with? Maybe it’s time to move to Virginia.

Members of MS-13 Indicted: Nineteen members of the feared Latino street gang MS-13 were indicted yesterday on federal racketeering charges in Maryland, reports WJLA. The gang members — ten of which were already behind bars — have been linked to a series of murders, kidnappings, and drive-by shootings that left six dead and another five targeted since April 2003. The crackdown comes in response to a spate of gang violence in Maryland in recent months, and signals the first use of a federal anti-racketeering statute often reserved for organized crime syndicates against members of MS-13. The Washington area has been particularly hard hit by the gang — which has an estimated 10,000 members nationwide — with some 500 active members in Montgomery County alone.

Food Ordered for Washington Sniper: A Maryland judge ordered on Thursday that convicted Washington-area sniper John Muhammad be force-fed after having refused food and water since Monday, writes WTOP. Muhammad, who was sentenced to death in Virginia for a spree of sniper-style killings that terrorized the area in 2002, is set to be tried in Maryland for a series of murders committed there.

Kweisi Mfume Focuses on War in Senate Run: Former NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume has chosen to highlight his opposition to the war in Iraq in his campaign for the Senate seat being abandoned by Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.), notes the Post. Mfume, seemingly trying to capitalize on increasing disillusionment with progress in Iraq, has started using the issue as a way to distinguish himself from his well-funded and widely-endorsed competitor for the Democratic nomination, Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.).

Briefly Noted: Fairfax County flasher arrested … Move against American University’s president Benjamin Ladner called unusual … Unemployment in District falls 0.8 percent in July, down 1.6 percent for year … Hearing on federal role in Metro’s operations to be held today … District officials want Alexandria coal power plant to remain open.

The picture above, snapped by DCist and posted to DCist Photos, proves that you can never have too many pictures of the sunset.