The U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. won’t pursue cases related to the squad of D.C. police officers currently under internal investigation.
The change in policy came a day after the public first learned about a rape that took place aboard a Red Line train last month.
The bill focuses on neighborhood engagement rather than extra policing.
The Council is coming back and catching up on all they missed.
The latest chapter in The Urban Institute’s “Our Changing City” series is here.
After analyzing crime data compiled by the FBI, Forbes magazine reports that D.C. no longer ranks among the most violent major cities in the United States.
Photo by Matt.Dunn Fifth District Citizens’ Advisory Council chairman Robert Vinson Brannum sent a notice out today to the MPD-5D listserv today highlighting homicide statistics that speak for themselves: The current number of homicides in DC stands at 138; at the same point last year, we experienced 184. This is a 25% reduction thus far this year. The 2008 total was 186. In 1991, DC recorded 479 homicides, its worst murder rate in the…
What constitutes a violent crime? That’s the question at the root of this report from the Examiner’s Scott McCabe, which notes that an FBI report released on Monday shows that violent crime in the District actually increased by 2.3 percent in 2008, despite D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier’s triumphant announcement earlier this year that it had dropped by 5 percent. The FBI and the MPD use different measurements, you see, when it comes to counting…