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• 24/7 Anonymous Crime Tip Line (888) 919-CRIME or Text 50411

  
  Congress Heights on the Rise — Authority: 141
  Give 5-0 the 411 with the new Text Tip Line: 50411. Text messages are monitored by members of the department 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Tips are then analyzed and passed on to the appropriate unit or division for follow-up. Because the tip line is anonymous, the sender will not receive a response to the ...
  7 hours ago

• 2009 Year To Date Crime Stats By Ward

  
  Congress Heights on the Rise — Authority: 141
  Crime statistics are from 1/1/2009 - 12/24/2009 and are grouped by ward. Click images for larger view. Top 3 Wards with the highest number of reported VIOLENT crime: Ward 8 (1375)Ward 7 (1205)Ward 1 (1045)Top 3 Wards with the highest number of reported PROPERTY crime:Ward 2 (5545)Ward 1 (3694)Ward 6 (3567)Top 3 ...
  1 day ago

• D.C. Police: ‘It’s Time To Make The Snowball Conversation Disappear’

  
  City Desk — Authority: 722
  The D.C. Police Department would really like the snowball incident to go away. Here are some internal police e-mails discussing the p.r. disaster as well as some jerks who left threatening messages: From : Smith, Yvonne (MPD) To : Kishter, Jacob (MPD); Groomes, Diane (MPD); Lanier, Cathy (MPD) Cc : Klein, ...
  3 days ago

• Jacob Kishter Takes Command at MPD 3rd District

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 484
  The news that MPD’s 3rd District was getting a new commander might have received more coverage had it not been for the weekend snowstorm and the ensuing Great Snowball Fight of 14th and U. (New Columbia Heights had a good posting on the 3D changes last week.)On Sunday, 3D Inspector Jacob Kishter took over as [...]
  4 days ago

• Peter Nickles Bars Public On Police Shooting Facts

  
  City Desk — Authority: 722
  On April 23, 2008, Larry Rice Jr. had made the mistake of visiting a home on the 5800 block of Fields Place NE. D.C. Police soon raided the home on suspicion of drug activity; the officers did not have a warrant and found no drugs or any weapons. Rice tried to flee, according to court records, by attempting to ...
  5 days ago

• On Drinking And Driving (Chick Chat)

  
  Mediaverse — Authority: 419
  Does anyone actually edit at The Commercial Appeal? Im left to wonder after reading todays Chick Chat column by Cathryn Stout, in which she writes about how a careless night of drinking led her to fall asleep behind the wheel and caused a minor car accident. An excerpt: I left the club that night a few hours ...
  5 days ago

• The Great Snowball Fight: Lanier Says Officer’s Behavior “Totally Inappropriate”

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 484
  MPD Chief Cathy Lanier yesterday issued a statement regarding the around-the-world famous snowball fight at 14th and U Streets NW on Saturday. The fame occurred after the snowballers pelted a passing Hummer that was driven by an off-duty DC police detective—who angrily got out of his car to confront the crowd with ...
  5 days ago

• Our Morning Roundup: Post-Game Highlights

  
  City Desk — Authority: 722
  Bsom reports on the medias coverage of the cop vs. snowballers incident and wonders how WaPo and others initially got the story so wrong despite video and photographic evidence contradicting the police departments story: "So even in a case where theres photo, video, and lots of twitter-tastic participants, it ...
  5 days ago

• Snowballs and Guns: MPD “Looking into the Circumstances”

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 484
  Here is the MPD’s news release on the now [truly] famous incident on Saturday involving a snowball fight at 14th and U Streets, an off-duty detective and a uniformed officer.NEWS RELEASEContact: Officer Kenny Bryson (202) 727-4383December 20, 2009INCIDENT INVOLVING SNOWBALL THROWING CROWD IN THE 1400 BLOCK OF U ...
  6 days ago

• MPD Release Statement on Snowball-gate as (Inter)National Media Pick Up the Story

  
  14th & You — Authority: 464
  Greetings, fellow 14 th and U- ers !  I hope everyone is enjoying the wintry festivities...which, near as I can tell, involve significant amounts of snow shoveling, driving either entirely too fast or too slow, and observing DC police officers brandishing weapons at a snowball fight. Unless youve been living in an ...
  6 days ago

• Mainstream Media Thinks Snowball Fight Posed Anarchist Threat

  
  City Desk — Authority: 722
  So the snowball incident has made it to CNN which links to WJLA s scare story hatchet job. DCist notes that the coverage was a wee bit on the paranoid side: "As if the negative coverage doesn’t threaten to be embarrassing enough for the District, the story -- headlined Snowball Fight Takes a Turn for ...
  1 week ago

• More 14th/U Snowball Fight Video (Just the Fun)

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 484
  This video of yesterday afternoon’s 14th and U snowball fight is from a former neighbor who now lives in Columbia Heights. Nothing controversial here, just a snowball fight (CNN ran a story that is pretty good). He had already left before the incident with the off-duty police detective.Our friend’s narrative:On ...
  1 week ago

• Why we can’t have nice things…

  
  the mid-day ramble — Authority: 130
  Like a shitload of snow. Why? Because DC cops LOSE THEIR FUCKING MINDS. Lt. Overreact Much aka Detective Baylor Yeah, so. Not sure if you saw on any of the major websites today. But today a veteran MPD detective decided the best way to defuse a completely friendly snowball fight at the intersection of 14th and U ...
  1 week ago

• 14th & U Snowball Fight: Off-Duty Detective Loses Cool, Draws Gun

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 484
  With video and photos.This is just… weird? There was an ongoing, friendly snowball fight today at 14th and U NW. Then, according to NBC Channel 7, the fight was joined by antiwar protesters. Around 2:45 or so this afternoon, some of the participants threw snowballs at a passing Hummer SUV. It turns out that the [...]
  1 week ago

• What Was the Commotion on S Street This Evening?

  
  14th & You — Authority: 464
  Anyone walking along 14th or 15th streets at S Street between 7:30 - 9:00 pm this evening no doubt noticed the significant collection of police cards, ambulances, fire engines and other EMS vehicles surrounding S Street. Based on reports we received at the scene, it seems that an individual was seen breaking into a ...
  1 week ago

• Standoff on S Street: Police Apprehend Woman at Unoccupied House

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 484
  Note: By chance, we on hand for much of the incident described below. We were walking on the 1400-block of S Street around 7:30 p.m. when we saw police in the alley next to 1402 S Street and then heard breaking glass from a rooftop. We were in the area until around 8 p.m. and [...]
  1 week ago

• By the Numbers: Crime in Cleveland Park, Crime in Shaw

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 484
  Tonight Councilmember Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) is holding a public safety-crime forum in Shaw (7 p.m. at New Community Church, 614 S Street NW). Mendelson—chair of the Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary—resides in upper Northwest’s Cleveland Park, a very different neighborhood from downtown ...
  1 week ago

• Crime in Georgetown drops slightly, but arrests rise in 2009

  
  Vox Populi — Authority: 566
  But will the new recruits have cool hats? At a community meeting on Friday, Lieutenant John Hedgecock of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District told community leaders in Georgetown that crime had dropped very slightly in Georgetown in the past year, by 2 percent. However, to date, robberies are up ...
  1 week ago

• Dupont-Logan-U Street Crimes of Note, December 4-8

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 484
  Here are recent crimes of note in Police Service Areas (PSAs) 208, 307 and 305 for the December period in Borderstan… portions of the Dupont Circle, U Street and Logan Circle areas. Crimes of note are property crimes such as stolen autos and burglaries, and violent crimes such as robberies and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pershing Park Case: Plaintiffs File Response To Sporkin Report

  
  City Desk — Authority: 722
  The Sporkin Report continues to reverberate among plaintiffs seeking damages in the infamous Pershing Park case. Late yesterday, attorneys in one of the cases filed their own response [ PDF ] to the Sporkin findings [ PDF ]---repeating their position that a federal criminal investigation into the missing or ...
  2 weeks ago

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