Metropolitan Police Department

Law faculty are giving new cops in Washington a crash course on implicit bias, use of excessive force, homelessness, mental illness and other problems affecting their day-to-day job.

The Oct. 12 editorial decrying a rise in homicides in the District, “A rising D.C. death toll,” praised the D.C. police for “dispatching extra officers and doubling down on seizures of illegal guns” in Ward 8. The editorial went on to…

WASHINGTON — Scammers are working the phones again, D.C. police warn. This time, the crooks’ angle involves the use of “spoofing” technology, which makes the call appear like it’s coming from a Police Department number. The aggressive…

After Areeg Abu El Hawa and a friend were hit by a car while in a Tenleytown crosswalk, all she could think about was her suddenly numb arm. She is studying medicine with dreams of being a surgeon. After being sent airborne by a car as she…

WASHINGTON — D.C. police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the car responsible for a Sept. 5 hit-and-run in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest. The video shows a car turning left from Albemarle Street onto Wisconsin…

WASHINGTON — A spike in overdoses in D.C. linked to the dangerous street drug known as “K2” is draining critical District resources, officials said Wednesday. “Our emergency responders continue to respond to dozens of K2 overdoses every…

Bucking a trend in other major U.S. cities where the homicide rate is heading down, the District has just passed a grim milestone: More people have been killed in the city so far this year than for the entire year of 2017. And there’s more…

The Washington Times reported on New Year’s Eve 2014 that “the city finished the year with 105 homicides, one more than was recorded in 2013 — a year that included 12 people killed in a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.” 2014 also…

Two gay men were physically attacked on U Street near 16 Street NW in an incident that D.C. police are investigating as a potential hate crime, according to a police report taken at the scene of the crime. The incident occurred on September…

WASHINGTON — On a rainy Monday night, dozens of people who live near D.C.’s Logan Circle crammed into a meeting room to talk about a crime that has left the neighborhood on edge. Last Tuesday night, 35-year-old Wendy Martinez, an avid…

D.C. police say they will take fewer people into custody when they are caught using marijuana in public, and instead cite them the way they would someone caught for a moving violation. The new policy was announced late Friday by Mayor…

Arrests in the District for public use of marijuana will result in those who qualify receiving a citation, rather than being taken into custody, the city’s mayor and police chief announced Friday. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and Police Chief…

A Romanian woman pleaded guilty Thursday in a cyber attack that took control of two-thirds of D.C. police surveillance cameras days before President Trump’s presidential inauguration in January 2017.

Few police departments are better at finding illegal guns than D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. But in the day-to-day battle to get guns off the street, residents in some majority-African American neighborhoods say they are being…

It’s about comfort. And durability. And stealth. After decades wearing light-blue uniform shirts, D.C. police are switching to navy blue. The shift from light to dark comes with a new design — hidden, internal suspenders to more evenly…

As part of an effort to call attention to a persistent crime, D.C. police recently surveyed more than 300 cars on Capitol Hill and in nearby neighborhoods, finding a large proportion with valuables in sight, unlocked doors or both.

D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Jessica Hawkins, who in March 2015 became the first transgender person to be named as supervisor of the department’s LGBT Liaison Unit, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant and assigned to a…

The D.C. police top brass and leadership at the Fraternal Order of Police have reached a new collective bargaining agreement. This is the first contract that did not require impasse or arbitration since 2001, per Mayor Muriel Bowser's…