Metropolitan Police Department

But good luck trying to access the video, or police records on any councilmember, for that matter.

Parts of the videos are disturbing to watch. They all feature encounters with the same special police officer, and the D.C. residents he arrested say they are still struggling with the impacts months and years later.

Metropolitan Police Department officers arrested at least one juvenile on the street near H Street Northeast on Saturday afternoon, sparking outrage from a small crowd that gathered on the scene and across social media, where a video of…

"When he sat across from me he was visibly angry."

The District government has homed in on new space for the Office of the Attorney General, which is being displaced to make way for the Metropolitan Police Department, but Karl Racine and his staff won't have to move too far away.

A civilian supervisor and former police sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department was terminated two weeks ago, shortly after testifying in defense of an officer accused of inappropriate anal and genital searches, FOX 5 reports.

Reports of police using force in the nation’s capital are on the upswing.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is proposing a small increase in the police department’s half-billion-dollar budget for the coming fiscal year, which includes money to hire additional officers to help confront the rising number of homicides.

Reported use-of-force incidents by D.C. police officers increased by 20 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to a report released this month by the Office of Police Complaints, which also found that the number of officers who used force…

A D.C. Superior Court judge last week rejected a prominent D.C. Black Lives Matter activist’s request to compel D.C. police to hand over documents she says indicate that the Metropolitan Police Department has been surveilling her for…

D.C. Council member Vincent Gray recently held a crime summit in his ward and encouraged the residents not to complain about criminal lawbreaking but to do something about it.

A man was stabbed in a first-floor restroom at the 801 East Men’s Shelter in the early morning hours of Feb. 12, according to separate reports from two shelter residents.

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham’s Feb 24 letter, “MPD: Stop and frisk is essential,” was a mass of inconsistencies, untruths and fearmongering.

Years ago, as Black Lives Matter DC railed against the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), core organizer April Goggans often posted online about a marked police car parked in front of her home and other instances of alleged…

It’s not every day that a police chief publicly scolds lawmakers who oversee his department. But in January, and again last month, D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham unceremoniously rebuked two D.C. council members who had the unmitigated…

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Surveillance video caught a glimpse of at least one man with a gun, following David Brandon’s murder on Georgia Avenue on Sunday.

D.C. police are placing partial blame for a recent shooting on a nearby bar, and the police chief is asking city officials to yank its liquor license.