Metropolitan Police
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MPD patrol car torched near Logan Circle
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An MPD patrol car was torched in a Northwest D.C. neighborhood. Neighbors say there is no doubt the fire was intentional.
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D.C. police increase patrols for St. Patrick's Day
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D.C. police say they will be aggressively enforcing the city's laws against drunken and impaired driving. Officers will operate traffic checkpoints and other patrols.
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D.C. to hire 50 new police officers
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D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells says the Council has approved a funding request to hire 50 new police officers.
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Report claims over 100 sexual assault cases mishandled in D.C.
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In their report, Human Rights Watch says they found 170 cases between 2008 and 2011 where sexual assault victims arrived at Washington Hospital, underwent forensic sex exams and reported to police, but the lead researcher says the cases were not investigated.
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Kenneth Furr sentenced to 14 months for assault, solicitation
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A MPD officer was sentenced to 14 months in prison Thursday for assault with a deadly weapon and solicitation of prostitution. With credit for time served, Kenneth Furr, 48, is now on probation
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Marion Barry says some MPD officers need to get into better shape
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D.C. Councilman Marion Barry stirred up controversy again after he reportedly said some MPD officers need to get into better shape.
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D.C. audit finds police hampered free speech probe
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A District of Columbia auditor says police hampered a probe into whether the department complied with a new law regulating how they investigate groups exercising free speech rights.
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Anthony Campbell arrested for 2011 Northeast homicide
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On July 13, 34-year-old Anthony Campbell of Northeast was arrested and charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of Antwain Henderson.
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D.C. police seek suspect in 18th Street, SE sexual assault
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D.C. police are hoping you can help them identify a suspect in a Southeast sexual assault.
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Elderly victims robbed by fake maintenance worker
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D.C. police say in two possibly related cases, a man posing as a maintenance worker robbed two elderly people.
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Charles Morrell Ball charged with driving SUV into D.C. building
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Police have charged the man they say intentionally drove an SUV into the lobby of a D.C. building Friday night.
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Anthony Chambers dies in D.C. police custody
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D.C. police say a man taken into custody at the Department of Mental Health died at an area hospital Friday.
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Columbia Heights IHOP shooting a gay hate crime, report says
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Metropolitan Police officials are now classifying the Columbia Heights IHOP shooting and two other attacks the next day as hate crimes against gay people.
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FBI investigates suspicious letters delivered to schools, businesses in D.C., 6 states
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FBI agents are investigating possible links between nearly 20 other suspicious letters with powder delivered in D.C., Dallas, Alabama, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and an art gallery in New York City.
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Oyster-Adams Bilingual School evacuated after suspicious letters found
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Authorities say that no hazardous material was found inside a suspicious letter that was delivered to a Northwest D.C. school on Wednesday, but it was part of an alarming trend.
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D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier to appear at oversight hearing
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A DC Trans Coalition leader called out the Metropolitan Police Department Wednesday, saying that "it's amateur hour" in the D.C. police ranks each time a transgender person is killed.
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Woman files lawsuit against MPD for shooting dog
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A woman in Northwest Washington has filed a lawsuit against the city and nine Metropolitan police officers over a June 2010 incident in which her dog was shot and killed.
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MPD Lt. Kenneth Hargrove arrested for DWI
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An MPD lieutenant was arrested by his own colleagues early Saturday morning for allegedly driving under the influence after a dispute in which the officer apparently pulled his gun on a driver.
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