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No More ‘All Hands on Deck’ for D.C. Cops, Ruling Says
The Metropolitan Police Department's "All Hands on Deck" initiative violates the terms of officers' labor contract and must be ended, an arbitrator has ruled. "AHODs," three-day periods during which...
View ArticleFenty, Transparency, Scrutiny: The Political Fallout of FOIA Reform
Roy Morris describes his struggles in getting D.C. government agencies to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests as "Kafkaesque." "They use these exceptions to deny anything," Morris...
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Some Cops React to Gray Giving Lanier the Nod
Some members of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department aren't "furious" about Chief Cathy Lanier keeping her job. "I'm very happy about it," says one high-ranking police official, who asked for...
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In Defense of Expired Tag Arrests?
Hmm, in defending the city's recent arrest of a driver with expired tags, Fraternal Order of Police head Kristopher Baumann is making sense here: The pressure to change the law has not come from D.C....
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Bowser Doubles Down, Makes Public Show of Support for Lanier
One day after the results of a police-union poll showed that almost 98 percent of voting officers have “no confidence” in Chief Cathy Lanier, Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared to dig in on her support of...
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