Metropolitan Police Department

Amid a violent January in which 18 people have been killed in the District, city leaders on Tuesday pressed for additional resources for crime prevention, including a new effort to help find jobs for inmates nearing release from the city…

WASHINGTON — As the deadly start to the year in D.C. continues, the police say there aren’t any more shootings than the last few years, but that the circumstances around them are harder to survive.

A former D.C. police officer was convicted in federal court Tuesday on charges he solicited two underage teenage girls online and then paid them for sex, according to court records.

Mayor Muriel Bowser presented a series of violence-reduction strategies on Tuesday during a monthly breakfast with the D.C. Council, announcing continuing efforts to get illegal guns off the streets and curb retaliatory violence through…

DC Police Chief Peter Newsham plans to announce even more crime prevention measures as the homicide wave from last year pushes into 2019.

This past weekend four men were killed in the District.

Four people were killed in the District this weekend, bringing the 2019 total up to 18 homicides. It’s still early in the year, but that’s an 80 percent increase from this time last year, according to MPD data.

Police have identified the three men killed in a Southeast D.C. triple homicide Saturday night.

An outbreak of violence this weekend in Washington, D.C., has left four people dead and raised the number of gun-related homicides to a total of 18 in January.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Metropolitan Police officers are searching for suspects in two separate fatal shootings Saturday in that left four men dead in Southeast and Northeast Washington.

WASHINGTON — Three men, including two sitting in a parked car, were shot to death in a quiet, residential neighborhood in Southeast D.C. and police are now seeking two suspects.

Last year, homicides in the District were up 38 percent. There were 160, compared with fewer than 90 in 2012. Yet violent crime overall has been declining year after year. Last year, assault with a dangerous weapon was down 10 percent. The…

Democracy depends on transparency in its public institutions. To ensure that the needs of all people are served, residents and public officials must have the right to inquire and criticize. There is no institution for which this is truer…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Friday that she plans to equip the District’s police officers with a life-saving overdose antidote, reversing her administration’s previous opposition to an initiative supporters say will help…

Mayor Bowser announced on Friday that she will move to equip D.C. police officers with naloxone, a lifesaving opioid overdose antidote.

Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to add more officers to the Metropolitan Police Department. Councilmember Vince Gray wants to know why it took her so long to make that call.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser wants to see the District’s police department grow over the next four years by adding about 150 officers, allowing more front-line protectors to walk neighborhood beats and ride bikes, Segways and scooters.

Community members were visibly unsatisfied with answers and what they viewed as police refusal to release footage at a Jan. 15th meeting between Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6B and District…