Peter Newsham

District officials announced on Wednesday the start of the annual summer crime initiative that includes saturating six of the most violent neighborhoods with extra officers and other resources as homicides continue to climb.

D.C.’s mayor and police chief identified six areas of the city that police will target in an effort to reduce violent crime this summer.

Her eyes fill with tears, every time Rochelle Behrens thinks about Saturday’s shooting at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, California that left one woman dead, and three injured.

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…

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

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.

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

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…

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.

Misinformation is being shared about the D.C. police’s use of stop and frisk. It is particularly troubling when this misinformation is from a D.C. Council member.

WASHINGTON — For roughly five hours on Thursday, a D.C. Council committee heard complaints, allegations and anecdotes from city residents unhappy with the police department, ranging from leadership to the rank and file on the streets.…

WASHINGTON — D.C. and federal authorities are cracking down on armed felons in an attempt to bring down the District’s rising homicide rate.

Chukwuemeka Ekwonna of Glenn Dale, Md., has taken another step toward learning how many years he will spend in prison. That sentencing date can’t come soon enough.

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.

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

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.