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Members of the Metropolitan Police Department's K-9 Unit along parade route. (credit: John Domen/All-News 99.1 WNEW)

D.C. Emancipation Day Parade Goes On as Planned

The District of Columbia’s Emancipation Day parade went on as planned a day after two bombs exploded in Boston near the finish line of the city’s marathon.

2013/04/16

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D.C. Police Chief to Testify in IMF Protests Suit

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier is scheduled to answer questions next month in a lawsuit stemming from the mass arrests of demonstrators in 2002.

2013/02/01

Questions Submitted for D.C. Police Chief in IMF Case

Lawyers in a lawsuit surrounding the mass arrests of demonstrators have submitted a series of topics they think D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier should be questioned about.

2013/01/31

DC Murder Rate Lowest Since 1961

Mayor Vincent Gray and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier are holding a press conference Thursday to announce that the city had 88 homicides in 2012. That’s the lowest on record since 1961.

2013/01/03

Street Gang Led By ‘McLovin’ Indicted for Terrorizing the City

Nine people were indicted in the District Thursday, accused of committing crimes across the city together that include flash mob style robberies and other crimes, all led by a man who goes by the name ‘McLovin’.

2012/11/15

File photo of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

D.C. Changes Fines for Speed, Red Light Cameras

By Morgan Gilliam, Special to CBSDC.com WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – It’s official … D.C. is changing the fines from their automated speed and red light cameras. The new fines, effective Monday, will cost drivers $100 if […]

2012/11/02

Leo Johnson, 46, receives Mayor Gray's 1st Medal of Honor for his heroics during the FRC shooting in August. (Credit: Executive Office of the Mayor)

Guard Receives Medal for Family Research Council Shooting Heroics

Mayor Vincent Gray presented the first-ever Mayor’s Medal of Honor to a security guard for his heroism in the face of a shooting at the Family Research Council this summer.

2012/10/22

Police Chief Lanier Says Not All Security Measures Are Noticeable

The attacks on September 11 shocked us to our cores, something the Metropolitan Police Department remembered when making the decision to beef up security measures around the city. But Chief Lanier says not all those changes will be noticeable…

2012/09/11

DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier: Not Improper To Burn Documents

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says it’s not unusual or improper for the police force to burn documents, even as union officials continue to demand an investigation into how police department records came to be placed in trash bins and set afire.

2012/05/31

Key Police Officials In DC Return From Israel Trip

Two top police officials from the nation’s capital have returned from a homeland security-inspired trip to Israel, where they say they got a first-hand look at how police and the public respond to security threats and disasters.

2012/04/16