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Washington DC Police Officer Debra Domino models a body camera before a press conference at City Hall September 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. The Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department is embarking on a six- month pilot program where 250 body cameras will be used by officers. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Local Police Departments Could Actually Learn A Lot From Washington, D.C.
By Ryan J. Reilly and Tyler Tynes
The Metropolitan Police Department is “plainly a very different, and much better, law enforcement agency than it was" 17 years ago.
Alonzo Smith died in the custody of special police officers in Washington, D.C.
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Death Of D.C. Man In Security Guard Custody Ruled A Homicide
By Dana Liebelson
Alonzo Smith reportedly ran into the hallway saying, "Somebody help me, they're trying to kill me."
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - DECEMBER 18: A protestor holds a black lives matter t-shirt during a 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' demonstration in front of the San Francisco Hall of Justice on December 18, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Dozens of San Francisco public attorneys and activists staged a 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' demonstration to protest the racial disparities in the criminal justice system following the non-indictments of two white police officers who killed unarmed black men in Missouri and New York. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Video Shows Police Officers Forcefully Taking Down Black College Student In D.C.
By Philip Lewis
The Metropolitan Police Department later confirmed that Jason Goolsby had committed no crime.
POLITICS
Cover Up: D.C. Police Cited For Refusing To Identify Themselves In Hundreds of Cases
By Jason Cherkis
POLITICS
U.S. Park Police Enters Historic Settlement Over Mass Arrests
By Jason Cherkis
POLITICS
D.C. Mayor Doesn't Want You To See Police Body Camera Footage
By Jason Cherkis
POLITICS
D.C. Police Take A Progressive Approach To Protests. It Wasn't Always That Way.
By Ryan J. Reilly
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DC's Attorney General Race: A Serious Impact on District Youth
By Michael Shank, Ph.D., Contributor
Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU's Center for Global Affairs
Now, more than ever, we must pay attention to the practices and policies of the office tasked with prosecuting our youth. In 2011, there were 3,464 arrests of youth in the District and more than 42 percent of these were for non-violent misdemeanors.
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Saving the District's At-Risk Youth From Mayor Gray's Budget Cuts
By Michael Shank, Ph.D., Contributor
Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU's Center for Global Affairs
The mayor's office has a surplus, meaning that its decision to restrict funding from this organization is not only strategically ill-conceived, as it invariably invites more youth to pursue a path of violence and crime, it is morally unjustifiable.
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Ignoring Sexual Assaults Can Be Deadly
By Sylvester J. Schieber, Contributor
Fmr. chair of the Social Security Advisory Board
On May 7, 1998, my daughter, Shannon, a 23-year-old student, was raped and killed by a man who broke into her apartment at 2 a.m. Her killer previously had raped at least four other women, but police failed to realize they had a serial rapist on their hands because detectives had classified two of the cases as "non-criminal offenses."
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Shocking Video Of Brazen Restaurant Robbery
By Will Wrigley
DC
Officer Accused Of Michelle Obama Threat: It Was A Joke
By Erin Ruberry
DC
WATCH: You Have To Watch This Inauguration Weekend Video
By Arin Greenwood
DC
D.C.'s Murder Rate Falls As Gun Crime Remains Problem In Nation's Capital
By Michael Grass
DC
Short Car Chase Ends Near White House
By Michael Grass
DC
Arrests Made In BRUTAL Capitol Hill Beating
By Michael Grass
DC
Lesbian Police Officers Sue D.C.
By Arin Greenwood
DC
Michelle Obama Threat Investigated
By Arin Greenwood
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Security Drill Will Close Navy Yard Station
By Michael Grass
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Fox News Host Stopped By D.C. Police
By Michael Grass
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Report: Driver In Gas-Soaked SUV Tried To Use Lighter After Crash
By Michael Grass
DC
D.C. Police Chief: 'I Don't Think It Was A Terrorist Act'
By Michael Grass
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D.C. Police Make Arrest In Anti-Gay Hate Crime
By Michael Grass
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