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Black Homeownership in DC, Business, Homeownership

D.C. Police Expand Amazon Lockers Program to Combat Residential Package Theft

by James Wright Jr.February 14, 2024February 21, 2024

The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department has expanded its Amazon Lockers Program, adding two additional lockers at police stations in Northwest to combat residential package thefts.

**FILE** Andrew O. Clarke, lawyer for the Wilson and Martin families, and Dalaneo Martin’s mother, a member of the Coalition of Concerned Mothers, at a vigil for 17-year-old Dalaneo in March 2023 (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Amid Conversation About Crime Prevention, Activists Raise Up Victims of Police Violence

by Sam P.K. CollinsOctober 10, 2023October 10, 2023

**FILE** D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee (Courtesy of MPD via Twitter)

Chief Contee to Step Down from MPD’s Top Spot

by Sam P.K. CollinsApril 26, 2023April 28, 2023

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

Bowser Increases Police Recruit Hiring Bonus

by James Wright Jr.April 10, 2023April 10, 2023

D.C. Council member Zachary Parker expressed concerns that funds are often being spread too thinly across District public schools, much to the detriment of families living in Wards 5, 7 and 8. (Courtesy photo)

Education, Local

Alleged Incident at Patterson Elementary Intensifies Debate About School Safety

by Sam P.K. CollinsApril 4, 2023April 4, 2023

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

Hylton-Brown Case Latest in Pattern of Deadly D.C. Police Tactics, Family Attorney Says

by Sam P.K. CollinsJanuary 2, 2023January 2, 2023

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Jury Convicts MPD Officers Involved in Karon Hylton-Brown’s Death

by Sam P.K. CollinsDecember 21, 2022December 23, 2022

Metropolitan Police Department Cadet Taron Alston speaks during an opening ceremony for the department's new Cadet Corps Training Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE in D.C. on Oct. 19. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

MPD Cadet Program Moves Into New Facility in Ward 8

by James Wright Jr.October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

Since Kevin Hargraves-Shird’s death, family, friends, community members and activists representing Black-led community defense hub Harriet’s Wildest Dreams have coalesced around movement to hold MPD accountable for his death and that of Lazarus David Wilson, a man shot and killed by MPD Cmdr. Jason Bagshaw at the Wharf last month. (Sam P.K. Collins/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Police-Involved Shooting of Kevin Hargraves-Shird Leads to Outrage

by Sam P.K. CollinsAugust 10, 2022August 10, 2022

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (center) speaks during a Feb. 1 joint press conference in northeast D.C. with Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (right) and Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee (left) on the rise in juvenile carjackings in the region. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)

Bowser Admin, Police Union Reach Pay Accord

by James Wright Jr.July 28, 2022July 28, 2022