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A roll of police tape (police line) lies on the ground outside a home being foreclosed on in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2009.

EDITORIAL: Violence at Our Front Doors

by WI Editorial Staff May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

With the sad and unfortunate loss of lives in Buffalo, California and Texas, there’s something unsettling about ignoring unresolved anger. Are we witnessing what happens when anger festers?

Chief Pamela A. Smith (Courtesy of U.S. Park Police)

MPD Hires Ex-Park Police Chief Pamela Smith as Equity Officer

by WI Web Staff May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

Bowser Reveals Plan for 4,000 D.C. Police Officers

by WI Web Staff April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Former Officers Blame City Officials for MPD’s White Supremacist Problem

by Sam P.K. Collins February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

Dunbar Senior High School in northwest D.C. (Courtesy of DCPS)

Teen Arrested, Charged With Making Bomb Threats to D.C. Schools

by Sam P.K. Collins February 10, 2022February 10, 2022

Dunbar Senior High School in northwest D.C. (Courtesy of DCPS)

8 D.C. Schools Evacuated After Bomb Threats

by Sam P.K. Collins February 9, 2022February 10, 2022

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

$100 Million Class-Action Suit Spells Out Racism, Sexism, Fraud and a Tarnished Blue Wall at D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent December 27, 2021December 28, 2021

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

MUHAMMAD: Black Female Cops Sue D.C. Police Department

by WI Web Editor and Askia Muhammad December 15, 2021December 16, 2021

MPD Chief Robert Contee III confronts young people who interrupted the MPD Youth Summit on Saturday, Dec. 3 at Eastern High School in southeast D.C. (Sam P.K. Collins/The Washington Informer)

Students Disrupt MPD Youth Summit, Criticize its Efforts of Engagement

by Sam P.K. Collins December 8, 2021

During a peace walk on Sept. 15, D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4) led marchers to Longfellow Street in Northwest, where three young people lost their lives in a hail of bullets during the Labor Day holiday weekend. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

MPD Makes Arrests in Longfellow Street Triple Homicide

by Sam P.K. Collins October 14, 2021December 21, 2021