District Links: Latest congressional proposal would add 7 new flights at DCA; Schwalb sues chemical…
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing more than 25 companies for manufacturing "forever chemicals" that he says are contaminating the District's waterways and other natural resources.
WTOP: Bowser nominates Pamela Smith as DC’s new chief of police
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has nominated former U.S. Park Police chief Pamela A. Smith to lead the city’s police force.
DCist: Bowser Picks Park Police Veteran Pamela Smith To Lead Metropolitan Police Department
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday nominated Pamela Smith to serve as chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, tapping the former chief of the U.S. Park Police and current ordained minister to replace former chief Robert Contee at a…
Washington Post: D.C. mayor selects Pamela A. Smith as new police chief
Smith spent 24 years with the U.S. Park Police before joining D.C. police in May 2022. If confirmed by the D.C. Council, she would be the second woman and the first Black woman to permanently run the agency.
City Paper: D.C. Jail ANC Scheduled for Transfer to Federal Penitentiary
Despite his pending court claim of actual innocence, ANC Leonard Bishop says he is scheduled for transfer to a prison in Kentucky.
District Links: Bowser names Pamela Smith as new police chief; court records point to 19 MPD…
Mayor Muriel Bowser today named Pamela Smith to head the Metropolitan Police Department, choosing a candidate who joined the agency in May 2022 as its first chief equity officer after retiring from the U.S. Park Police.
City Paper: Nineteen D.C. Police Officers Are Under Criminal Investigation for Questionable Gun…
Prosecutors are dropping dozens of criminal cases, and courts are reversing guilty judgments due to alleged police misconduct.
District Links: GOP-run House committees pursue restrictions on DC policies; GAO documents low usage…
GOP leaders in the House tout an array of DC-related provisions in the latest appropriations bill as supporting conservative values and priorities, but local officials are decrying them as a broad attack on the District's autonomy.
Colbert I. King in The Post: In answering rising crime, D.C. avoids the missteps of the ’90s
Remember “Operation Clean Sweep?” That was D.C. Mayor Marion Barry’s 1986 effort to pulverize the highly visible street-level drug trade and reduce the killings linked to drug trafficking. The D.C. police deployed a force of more than 100…
Washington Post: Interim DCHA leader says he is ‘not a seat-warmer’, pledges action
Dorian Jenkins, a consultant for the District’s housing authority, said he will work hard as DCHA continues to address problems HUD identified last year
DCist: House Republicans Advance Bills Targeting D.C. Traffic Cameras, Abortion, Elections, Gun Laws
House Republicans mounted a full-frontal attack on D.C.’s ability to govern itself this week. They moved forward with bills that would do everything from altering the city’s traffic laws and gun restrictions to upending how residents vote…
Axios: Pedestrians win battle over Cleveland Park service lane
The service lane along the Cleveland Park corridor will remain closed to cars for the foreseeable future in the latest win for pedestrians over the future of D.C. streets.
jonetta rose barras: Management and political dysfunction in DC
The doublespeak by DC elected leaders and the massive level of government mismanagement they have allowed or enabled through professional neglect is breathtaking. Nevertheless, they have deflected responsibility and accountability, blaming…
Washington Post: House Republicans advance restrictions on D.C. traffic safety, abortion, pot
House Republicans pummeled D.C. on Thursday by advancing a barrage of restrictive measures that would introduce a host of new funding blockades on D.C. policies, including one to ban the city from using traffic cameras, a key source of…
Washington Post: Downtown D.C.’s large federal offices are underutilized, report finds
The U.S. Government Accountability Office report comes as D.C. advances multiple efforts to revitalize the downtown corridor
Washington Post: Metro leaders weigh costly expansion, pointing to region’s growth
Transit leaders said the tunnel between Foggy Bottom and Rosslyn limits the number of trains Metro can run while areas served by rail continue to boom with new residents
City Paper: A New Bill Would Close an Existing Gap in Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights
Survivors have a legal right to request a rape kit without law enforcement involvement; recently introduced legislation seeks to ensure those kits are protected.
Axios: What’s inside D.C.’s emergency public safety bill
The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation this week that aims to crack down on rising violent crime in part by making it easier to detain certain adults and juveniles before they go to trial.
District Links: DC officials urge against policy riders in GOP’s proposed appropriations bill;…
Weeks after a House subcommittee approved an appropriations bill with multiple policy riders restricting the DC government as well as cuts to requested federal spending for DC's courts, the full House Committee on Appropriations is marking…
Washington Post: D.C. Council passed an emergency crime bill. Here’s what it would do.
The pressure’s on: As D.C. confronts a violent summer, the mayor and city council are banking on new legislation to reduce crime — and fast.