Theresa Vargas in The Post: If GOP wanted a safer D.C., it wouldn’t have targeted police reforms
The political game Congress is playing stands to further erode trust between the police and the public
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Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. needs hundreds more police officers. Here’s how to do it right.
The Metropolitan Police Department has 411 fewer officers than three years ago because of attrition and struggles in attracting recruits. The force is the smallest it has been in decades, with fewer than 3,400 sworn officers, and D.C. is…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Tony Lewis Sr. comes home, ending son’s long fight for father’s freedom
The once-notorious drug kingpin went to prison when he was 26. He is now a 60-year-old grandfather.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: D.C.’s unfulfilled promise of safe streets has already failed too many
A new report about the city’s Vision Zero plan supports what advocates and grieving families have been saying: more action is needed
Colbert I. King in The Post: The GOP’s attacks on D.C. home rule are just getting started
District leaders can’t say they didn’t see the Republican-led House assault on home rule coming.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: This D.C. statehood activist just got full voting rights — in Austria
Bo Shuff finally got full voting rights — something he’s spent years fighting for as a D.C. statehood advocate.
Paul Butler in The Post: I helped revise the D.C. Criminal Code. Biden and Bowser are wrong.Paul Butler in The Post:
Relax everybody. It is still a crime in D.C. to play “Bandy” and “Shindy” in the public streets. And if you happen to be transporting cattle through the city, make sure you provide your livestock with five hours of rest — or prepare to…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: To survive in D.C., he eats thousands in fines to hawk $8 chicken
The D.C. gourmet food truck scene is gone. Those remaining are trying to eke out a living downtown — at a cost.
Colbert I. King in The Post: D.C. home rule takes an unnecessary hit
Congress’s decision to overturn the District’s criminal-code reform was hardly the lowest or most intrusive intervention in the city’s 50-year home rule history. This week’s rejection pales, in severity, to the historic 1995 move by…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: If Congress must tackle D.C. issues, let’s tell them our problems
If they want to ‘fix’ our city, let them. Call them up about your broken streetlights, your rats, those overgrown trees. After all, they’re here to help.
Perry Bacon Jr. in The Post: Biden puts reelection over principles with his decision on D.C. law
Democratic presidents in the past have done troubling and at times truly terrible things to appease centrist White voters and win elections. President Biden shouldn’t continue that legacy — and I am becoming increasingly worried that he…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: D.C.’s hidden foster care practice is harming families, advocates warn
At the center of the issue — and six federal lawsuits — are children who have already been failed by adults in their lives
Washington Post Editorial Board: To revitalize downtowns, cities need to stop making this big mistake
Cities across the nation face a dilemma: Downtown office buildings are empty as workers prefer to stay home. Nearly all local leaders agree part of the solution is an office-to-apartment conversion boom. Cities have started rolling out tax…
Colbert I. King in the Post: Agnes Meyer’s portrait of 1963 D.C. was unsparing. It still rings true.
Meyer’s frustration with the laggard pace of change and slight government attention to a boiling kettle of Black discontent spilled out
Washington Post Editorial Board: It’s a shame it came to this, but D.C. should rewrite its criminal code
President Biden announced Thursday that he will not stand in the way of a congressional effort to nullify D.C.’s new criminal code, paving the way for Congress to block a D.C. law — for the first time since 1991 — from taking effect.…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Walmart’s breakup with H Street hurts. Yet again, it’s not us. It’s you.
Walmart, we knew your bad habits all along: killing off mom-and-pop stores; treating workers poorly; getting us hooked on being able to buy a toilet seat, party balloons and bananas all in one stop.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: A single mother on raising 3 boys during D.C.’s juvenile crime emergency
The mother was exasperated. She had been unable to stop her three adolescent sons from sneaking out of the house at night, after she went to bed. Then, last summer, two of her boys were shot and wounded while walking the streets at around…
Washington Post Editorial Board: A last, best chance to fix the D.C. criminal code
A controversial overhaul of Washington’s criminal code needs to be fixed.
Washington Post Editorial Board: For D.C. housing voucher tenants, the rent is too damn high
There is nothing new about reports of waste, inefficiency and poor living conditions in public housing and related federal low-income housing assistance programs. Hardly any housing authority in the country has been free of such issues.…
Colbert I. King in The Post: Is D.C. juvenile justice a revolving door? We need to know.
Presidents’ Day weekend was no holiday for D.C. crime — and certainly no timeout for juvenile offenders. A fuller accounting of how both are handled by the city’s juvenile justice system is overdue.