D.C. Metropolitan Police Department

Thirteen Washington, DC police officers, including reportedly some “high ranking” department officials, have been suspended in connection with an internal investigation into how the department has been formulating crime statistics — a matter also probed by Congress and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The second highest-ranking official in the Washington, D.C. police department — also named in a probe into the department’s purported underreporting of crime statistics — has been placed on administrative leave, reportedly over “inappropriate” text messages on his work phone.

The United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, said Monday that her office’s investigation into the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) revealed widespread misclassification of crime reports that made D.C.’s crime levels appear lower than they actually were.

A congressional report from the House Oversight Committee accuses the chief of the Washington, DC, police force of meddling with crime statistics.

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) admitted on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s “surge” of law enforcement in the city has dramatically reduced crime and made “neighborhoods feel safer.”

Senate Republican Conference Chair Tom Cotton (R-AK) said Congress should back President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, DC, which is currently on a running clock if the House and Senate do not pass a joint resolution.

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) is suing President Donald Trump and his top law enforcement officials over the federal takeover of the capital’s police force, arguing that current legislation “does not permit the President to seize control” of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

Washington, DC, a longtime sanctuary jurisdiction, will now cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in several ways just days after President Donald Trump took federal control of the city’s Metropolitan Police Department to fight violent crime.

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump on Wednesday invited members of the media to ride along with the D.C. Metropolitan Police, saying, in response to a question from Breitbart News, that his administration is going to “be very open about” the federalization of the city’s police department.

The Washington, DC, Police Union is backing President Donald Trump’s call to take federal control of Washington, DC, due to rampant crime.

President Donald Trump highlighted examples of crimes against public officials and lawlessness in Navy Yard in southeast Washington, DC, over the weekend during his announcement that the federal government is taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

A former police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was found guilty of leaking information to a former Proud Boys leader.

Michael Fanone, the former Washington, DC, cop who claimed that President-elect Donald Trump “tried to get me killed” on January 6, 2021, had a drunk “end of the f*cking world” meltdown as the former president was reelected this week.

A man attempted to set himself on fire outside of the White House on Saturday evening during a pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, D.C.

A woman from San Antonio, Texas, was arrested on Friday in Washington, DC, for allegedly threatening former President Donald Trump, the news coming after a gunman tried to assassinate him during his rally on July 13.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) revealed that one of his staffers and a friend had been robbed “at gunpoint” by “three men” in Navy Yard, a neighborhood in Washington, DC.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pressuring the mayor of Washington, DC, Democrat Muriel Bowser, to get out of the way of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and let cops clear the rowdy leftist protesters off the campus of George Washington University.

The Metropolitan Police Department has lost more than 1,400 D.C. officers since the Democrat-controlled district passed a controversial law in 2022.

The carjacker who claimed the lives of former Trump administration official Mike Gill and another innocent man in Washington, DC, last week had multiple prior arrests in a disturbing pattern of criminal behavior.

Authorities are looking for the person who allegedly detonated or threw explosive devices at businesses in Washington, DC, on Sunday morning, USA Today reported.

Pro-abortion activists burned an American flag and a “FUCK YOU MPD” sign in Washington, DC, following the Supreme Court’s historic 5-4 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade after issuing its final decision on the Dobbs case, thus determining the right to abortion is not included in the Constitution.

A Wahington, DC, man has been charged for allegedly killing the mother of his baby, who publicly said she tossed the child in the trash.

A woman, bound at the limbs, leapt from the eighth story of a Washington, DC, apartment building to flee an attacker Thursday, per a report.

Police say a father was fatally shot as he walked down a Washington, DC, street while carrying his infant and holding his five-year-old’s hand.

Crime in Democrat-led Washington, DC, increased three percent overall compared to the same time last year, according to statistics collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

A Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) officer named Taylor Brandt is being praised for saving nine lives in one year being on the job.

Officials in charge of securing the inauguration are vetting the 25,000 National Guard deployed to detect any extremists in the ranks.

The more than 25,000 law enforcment personnel that are being deployed in D.C. is five times the number of military in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Supporters of President Donald Trump attempted to steal a gun from a D.C. police officer and use it against him during last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol, according to the police chief. The officer was said to be “very shaken, very appalled, very angry” after being released from the hospital, the chief said.

Supporters of President Donald Trump at the March to Save America are attempting to breach the U.S. Capitol, breaking through barriers in attempts to occupy the building, according to footage captured Wednesday.

Violence broke out Tuesday night on the eve of a massive pro-Trump rally in Washington, DC. The violence happened as police blocked the crowd of Trump supporters from entering Black Lives Matter Plaza.

Hundreds of D.C. National Guard troops have been activated to respond to planned pro-Trump protests in D.C. this week.

Black Lives Matter DC activists complained on Sunday that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) failed to protect them while continuing to call for defunding police. The apparently conflicting statements came during a press conference held in Black Lives Matter Plaza Sunday afternoon.

Multiple fights broke out in Washington, D.C., as Antifa and Proud Boys protesters clashed Saturday afternoon. Police rushed in to break up the fights at more than one location.

“The D.C. police failed me today,” says a conservative attorney forced to walk through a gauntlet of BLM/Antifa protesters after police blocked the shortest pathway to his hotel. The incident happened after the Million MAGA March on Saturday as anti-Trump activists attacked multiple conservatives leaving the event.

D.C. police arrested two students for chalking a pro-life message outside of a Planned Parenthood facility in August but refused to do the same to Black Lives Matter protesters who spray-painted outside of the Department of Justice just weeks later. The police department has yet to explain the discrepancy.