Change my location 
D.C. police
Reinstated cops to sue D.C. for $140M
- Nearly two dozen D.C. police officers who were fired for misconduct but were reinstated after a court found the police department violated their due process rights are suing the city for a total of $140 million, according to court documents.
D.C. police chief reshuffling brass, replacing two high-level officers
- D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier is shaking up her command staff again, dropping her top anti-terrorism officer and replacing a commander whom she elevated barely three months ago, The Examiner has learned.
Plan to increase weekend patrols rankles officers
- A D.C. police plan to beef up weekend patrols in Georgetown and Dupont Circle has angered rank-and-file officers who will be working weekends all summer under the new initiative.
- A D.C. police plan to beef up weekend patrols in Georgetown and Dupont Circle has angered rank-and-file officers who will be working weekends all summer under the new initiative.
Feud with mayor taints police contract talks
- The bitter feud between Mayor Adrian Fenty and the police union has spilled over into contract negotiations, with both sides complaining that the other side is bargaining in bad faith.
Lanier to again fire reinstated officers
- D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced Friday that she has begun to fire for a second time 20 city police officers who were terminated, then ordered to be reinstated because the department missed critical disciplinary deadlines.
District cops lose guns, drugs, money from evidence warehouse, audit says
- The Metropolitan Police Department lost guns, drugs and cash seized as evidence and jeopardized criminal prosecutions by failing to secure its evidence warehouse and databases, a scathing new audit finds.
Officials condemn police tactics in arrest of 2 guards at day care
- Two security guards hired to protect a North Capitol Hill Head Start center near where a 7-year-old girl was shot recently were arrested and thrown in jail earlier this month because they lacked proper gun permits.
Hands off? D.C. police chief backs down on weekend staffing
- D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier is quietly stepping back from the next installment of her controversial “All Hands on Deck” initiative, cutting hundreds of officers from the anti-crime push aimed at flooding city streets with police.
D.C. Council member makes new lease deal for warehouse
- A D.C. councilwoman successfully pulled off what the city’s Office of Property Management could not, or would not, do: She negotiated better terms in the new lease on the Metropolitan Police Department’s evidence warehouse.
Relations between police chief, union take a hit
- Relations between D.C. police Chief Cathy Lanier and the union representing rank-and-file officers have deteriorated over charges that internal investigators tried to force their way into a wounded officer’s hospital room, critics said Monday.
Study: Switch in retirement plan has less appeal for senior cops
- D.C. police officers will have to pay several times their salaries to switch from a 25-year to a 20-year retirement plan under a D.C. Council proposal, eroding its appeal to veteran officers, according to an actuarial study commissioned by the District.