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Ward 8 Council member Trayon White stands with local residents at a June 1 prayer vigil, where several homicides have taken place near Ferebee Hope Elementary School in southeast D.C. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

Spike in Violence Leads to Community Organizing, Government Response in D.C.

June 6, 2018 Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer 0

Hundreds of concerned D.C. residents gathered in the backyard of a Southeast retail store on Memorial Day to brainstorm ways to eliminate gun violence in the District, particularly in Southeast, after one of the most violent weekends in the city this year. [read more…]

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

EDITORIAL: A Season of Killings Unite and Divide

June 6, 2018 WI Editorial Staff 0

The senseless killings in Ward 8 and across the District have marked the first half of 2018 as one of the city’s deadliest in recent years. [read more…]

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser gives the 2018 State of the District address on March 15. (Brigette White/The Washington Informer)

Civil Right Groups Sue Bowser for Police Data

May 16, 2018 Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer 0

A coalition of civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and two other top city officials for a delay in the legally required collection and reporting of police stop-and frisk data. [read more…]

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

D.C. Launches Summer Crime Initiative

May 9, 2018 Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer 0

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham launched last month the District’s Summer Crime Initiative, the city’s coordinated effort to reduce crime through strategic prevention and focused enforcement in high-crime areas. [read more…]

D.C. Kicks Off Summer Crime Initiative

April 24, 2018 WI Web Staff 0

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser launched Monday the city’s annual “Summer Crime Initiative,” a coordinated effort to reduce violent crime through strategic prevention and focused enforcement in specific areas across the District. [read more…]

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (left) and Police Chief Newsham announce a mandatory class for Metropolitan Police Department employees on race theory in partnership with the University of the District of Columbia on April 13. (Courtesy of MPD)

D.C. Police to Get Lesson in Black History

April 18, 2018 Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer 0

Police officers in D.C. will take a course on race theory and visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture as part of a new training program announced Friday by Mayor Muriel Bowser outside of the museum. [read more…]

Violent Crimes Drop in D.C Despite Homicide Uptick

April 11, 2018 Stacy Brown 0

Violent crimes are down overall in the District over the first quarter of 2018, according to new Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) statistics. [read more…]

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

D.C. Mayor Threatened with Suit for Police Data

April 11, 2018 Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer 0

Civil rights groups have threatened to sue D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for a two-year delay in the implementation of a law that requires law enforcement to collect data on police stops in the city. Provisions [read more…]

The first line of security at most high schools in the District of Columbia are metal detectors and screening devices like those shown here at H.D. Woodson High School in Northeast staffed by security personnel. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

March for Our Lives Resonates Among D.C. Youth

March 21, 2018 Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer 0

Youth from the District will join thousands of protesters from across the country at the “March for Our Lives” anti-gun rally Saturday to call for an end to the epidemic of mass school shootings. [read more…]