Metropolitan Police Department

An operator at the District’s 911 center failed to send police Monday afternoon when a parent at an elementary school in Northwest Washington called to report a man outside the building threatening to shoot, according to a city spokeswoman.

A second suspect has turned himself in to authorities in the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who died in a barrage of 70 bullets fired into a courtyard in July as she went to buy ice cream.

Police have arrested one of four suspected gunmen in the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who died in a barrage of 70 bullets fired into a courtyard as she went to buy ice cream, the District’s police chief and mayor announced…

IT WAS a gratifying reaffirmation of American values when thousands of protesters turned out Sunday to denounce the few dozen white-nationalist bigots who rallied across from the White House on the anniversary of last year’s mayhem in …

In recent interviews, D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham showed a troubling lack of regard for the core principles intended to ensure that justice is the aim of our justice system. Remarks from local prosecutors also support a conclusion that…