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Metropolitan Police Department Cadet Taron Alston speaks during an opening ceremony for the department's new Cadet Corps Training Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE in D.C. on Oct. 19. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

MPD Cadet Program Moves Into New Facility in Ward 8

by WI Web Staff October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and MPD Chief Robert J. Contee III on Wednesday opened the department’s new Cadet Corps Training Center in Southeast.

Since Kevin Hargraves-Shird’s death, family, friends, community members and activists representing Black-led community defense hub Harriet’s Wildest Dreams have coalesced around movement to hold MPD accountable for his death and that of Lazarus David Wilson, a man shot and killed by MPD Cmdr. Jason Bagshaw at the Wharf last month. (Sam P.K. Collins/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Police-Involved Shooting of Kevin Hargraves-Shird Leads to Outrage

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

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (center) speaks during a Feb. 1 joint press conference in northeast D.C. with Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (right) and Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee (left) on the rise in juvenile carjackings in the region. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)

Bowser Admin, Police Union Reach Pay Accord

by WI Web Staff July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

**FILE** Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee (Courtesy of MPD via Twitter)

Bowser, MPD Announce New $20,000 Hiring Bonus for Police Officers

by WI Web Staff June 17, 2022June 17, 2022

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

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

Judge Tosses George Floyd Protesters’ Lawsuit

by Jamila Bey March 31, 2022March 31, 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