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Violence Interrupters Push Back Against Calls for Defunding

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. September 23, 2024September 25, 2024

Advocates say Police Union president Gregg Pemberton lacks an appreciation for a data-driven approach to violence prevention and reduction.

**FILE** Yellow police tape on the East Plaza with the Capitol dome in the background on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Violence Interrupter Program Set to Expand in 2020

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. March 31, 2019October 31, 2020

Members of the DC Metropolitan Police Department bicycle unit ride up 15th Street Northwest to greet the protesters carrying a 50-foot inflated marijuana joint down the street. /Photo by Nancy Shia @nancy_shia

Activists Await Court Ruling on Police-Stop Data

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. December 12, 2018October 31, 2020

Community, News

ACLU Sues D.C. Police Officer for ‘Humiliating’ Stop-and-Frisk

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer July 26, 2018October 31, 2020

From left: D.C. Council members Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7), Robert White (D-At Large) and Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) take questions during a community forum at the Deanwood Rec Center on July 12. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Residents, Activists Embrace Community Control over Police

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. July 18, 2018October 31, 2020

A Black youth is confronted by police. (Courtesy photo)

Black Experience, Community

D.C. Mayor Threatened with Suit for Police Data

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer April 11, 2018October 31, 2020

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser updates the community. (Courtesy of EOM.dc.gov)

Neighbors Train to be Ambassadors of the Law

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer February 21, 2018October 31, 2020

Ward 8 Council member Trayon White leads a community walk in Southeast to promote safety and nonviolence for children in Southeast on Oct. 31. (Courtesy photo)

Trayon White Pleads for Cease-Fire in Southeast D.C.

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer November 1, 2017October 31, 2020

Ward 8 Patrol Chief Robert Contee and Ward 8 Council member Trayon White participate in the Violence Prevention Town Hall at THEARC auditorium in southeast D.C. on July 19, 2017. (Mark Mahoney/The Washington Informer)

Another Violence Prevention Town Hall

by Sarafina Wright –Washington Informer Staff Writer July 26, 2017October 31, 2020