There is a supply room on the third floor of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Seventh District station that everyone knows about. The lock doesn’t work right, so you have to jiggle the handle twice and shove the door open. “It was 2 p.m. on a Tuesday. I was supposed to be filing reports,” former MPD […]
Several high-ranking Metropolitan Police Department officials received notices of termination this week, according to two sources familiar with the department’s internal investigation into crime statistics. The officials—whose ranks include captain, commander, and assistant chief—will have an opportunity to appeal the disciplinary action through the department’s internal disciplinary process,…
The Metropolitan Police Department’s internal investigators have sustained accusations against at least 15 high-ranking police officials—including captains, commanders, and assistant chiefs—in a sweeping investigation into crime statistics, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform…
Owen Ford stands accused of first-degree murder in the death of a man shot and killed in the middle of the afternoon on 14th Street NW. The dispute started over the sale of a PlayStation 5. The 18-year-old had been arrested less than a week prior when police found him carrying an illegal pistol with […]
The Metropolitan Police Department has released body-camera footage of a shooting by a Homeland Security Investigations agent last October. The agent has been identified as HSI Agent Benedict Bebber, according to a letter from Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Lindsey Appiah. The footage, posted to MPD’s YouTube channel on Monday, is from the […]
Executive Asst. Chief Andre Wright, the second-in-command at the Metropolitan Police Department, was told to turn in his gun and badge Thursday afternoon. Wright and his wife, Inspector Natasha Wright, have had their police powers revoked and were put on paid administrative leave, according to a department spokesperson. The spokesperson declined to answer questions about […]