
Nearly one year after the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, one of the officers who took on the killer tells his story.
Read More →A Washington Post report on the difficulties in quantifying the number of police shootings every year.
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Officers who fatally shot an unarmed Connecticut woman after a high-speed car chase from the White House to the Capitol last fall will not face criminal charges.
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Linwood Barnhill Jr., 48, who served on the force for 24 years and retired in advance of the hearing, pleaded guilty to two counts of pandering minors for prostitution and one count of possession of child pornography.
Read More →The Office of Police Complaints submitted a report Thursday to Mayor Vincent Gray and Police Chief Cathy Lanier with recommendations about how to develop an on-body camera program.
Read More →Critics often ask why officers didn't shoot at the tires. The answer is that law enforcement tactics don't follow Hollywood fiction. They must work in the real world.
Read More →It was reasonable for officials to reroute a Capitol Police tactical squad away from the Washington Navy Yard rampage amid concerns about possible threats to the U.S. Capitol after the officers got stuck in traffic, according to a report released Friday that defends the decision.
Read More →One would have thought that the news media—for all its protestations of harms incurred at the hands of police—might have adopted some form of its own Hippocratic oath by now. That it would swear to avoid putting cops and citizens in danger.
Read More →An off-duty Metro (D.C.) Police officer shot and wounded a man who attempted to rob her in southeast Washington early Tuesday.
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A bystander captured raw cell-phone footage of a U.S. Capitol Police officer striking a barrier near Capitol Hill during a deadly Oct. 3 pursuit. The video shows a patrol car slamming into the barrier and skidding out.
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