Metropolitan Police Department

The mother of a man who was killed last year in a collision with a D.C. police cruiser is suing a Metropolitan Police officer for searching her backyard without a warrant just days after her son’s death.

The new court complaint draws fresh scrutiny to the city's roving Gun Recovery Unit.

A 9-YEAR-OLD boy was leaning against a car in Northwest Washington when a D.C. police officer told him to leave. The boy mouthed off to the officer. He shouldn’t have. But what followed — the clearly terrified young boy chased by police…

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. police department have offered their sympathies for the victims of the Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting near San Diego, along with a pledge to continue protecting religious communities in the district.

The boy soiled his pants. I don’t know if that detail disturbs me more because it shows how scared the 9-year-old must have felt or because it is a reminder of how much closer he sits on his lifeline to toddlerhood than manhood.

Breon Austin’s death hit home. At 16 , he was close in age to two of my grandchildren. A young person’s death always hits hard.

The District paid a six-figure settlement after a senior citizen claimed her civil rights were violated

Another video surfaced of D.C. officers cuffing a 9-year-old boy.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine on Wednesday launched a review of police procedures after an officer was seen on video chasing and detaining a 9-year-old boy whose mother said had committed no crime.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced that his office will survey the Metropolitan Police Department’s practices around interacting with children and potentially recommend changes after several well-publicized incidents involving…

An incident between a 9-year-old boy and police who told him to stop leaning on a car ended with the child in handcuffs on Monday. Now, D.C.’s attorney general is reviewing how officers interact with children.

Again and again, surveillance footage and photos showed a man walking into downtown parking garages and leaving with bicycles that weren’t his.

A proposal from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that could lead to the more frequent moving of speed, red light and other photo enforcement cameras to different streets drew some skepticism at a hearing on Thursday.

D.C. police are looking for Airbnb renters who allegedly stole items and broke furniture while staying at an upscale Northwest Washington home last month, authorities said.

A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleges that a D.C. police officer and a U.S. Marshal groped a transgender man, fondled his genitals to “determine his anatomical gender,” and held him in lockup…

Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced at a D.C. Superior Court hearing on Tuesday that they were dropping a charge of misdemeanor solicitation for prostitution against transgender activist Dee Curry.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine on Friday said an investigation found that a 10-year-old boy shown in a video that went viral after he was handcuffed by police and accused of robbing another youth near Union Station is innocent and…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine released a statement on Friday exonerating a 10-year-old boy who was handcuffed and detained by Metropolitan Police Department officers after an armed robbery last week.