<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Police</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/dc/government/police?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><description>Police</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[District Settles With Mass Arrest Victims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33527-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33527-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The city agreed to pay a total of $425,000 to seven people caught up in a mass arrest in September 2002, acknowledging that they were wrongfully arrested.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig  and Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Detectives, the Streets Yield Few Allies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59574-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59574-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Only about 60 percent of the city's homicide cases are closed and investigators fault dubious witnesses among other obstacles, frustrations.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime-Fighting Obstacles Explored]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58222-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58222-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Margaret Quick was worried when she noticed a liquor store in her Southeast Washington neighborhood selling single-edge razor blades, the sort favored for cutting cocaine.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metro Police to Undergo 'Verbal Judo' Training]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52778-2004Oct21.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52778-2004Oct21.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The specialized training is a tactic to help officers peacefully defuse confrontations with passengers who violate public conduct laws.]]></description><author> Carol Morello</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police, Union Shift Talks To Mediator]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48133-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48133-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. police and union negotiators were scheduled to meet this week with an outside mediator for the first time in an effort to hammer out  a contract after 18 months of  negotiations.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Show Strain From Endless Alerts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40434-2004Oct17.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40434-2004Oct17.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[All across the country, but especially in Washington and New York, authorities say the heightened alert and the strain of working long hours are taking their toll.]]></description><author> Sari Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Officer Gets 6 Months in PCP Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16037-2004Oct7.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16037-2004Oct7.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Police officer sentenced to six months in jail for helping to buy PCP for a woman who later plunged to her death from an apartment building in Southeast Washington.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Union Disputes D.C. Crime Statistics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4481-2004Oct3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4481-2004Oct3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The D.C. police union has asked the District's inspector general to investigate how the department gathers crime statistics, saying that it has uncovered problems in one of the city's busiest police districts.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For DWI Enforcer, These Are Busy Nights]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60273-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60273-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Officer Seth Weinstein is the "DWI King." Ever since he joined the Alexandria Police Department five years ago, he has made more than 100 drunken driving arrests annually -- between a quarter and a third of all such arrests made in the city each year.]]></description><author> Sarah Park</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Out in Force]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60272-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60272-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Law enforcement is gearing up for a busy Labor Day weekend following a year in which the number of fatal accidents linked to alcohol rose dramatically in the D.C. area.]]></description><author> Arthur Santana</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Officers Sent to Dupont Circle After Slaying]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29985-2004Aug24.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29985-2004Aug24.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. police said they are stepping up patrols to combat a recent increase in armed robberies in the Dupont Circle area and attempting to determine if  the crimes are linked to this week's slaying of a popular waiter in the neighborhood.]]></description><author> Nicole Fuller</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Shift on Tracking Police Stops Questioned]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13500-2004Aug18.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13500-2004Aug18.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Civil rights groups and a key D.C. Council member expressed concern this week that city police officials are backing away from plans to collect data on traffic and pedestrian stops to measure possible racial profiling.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tactics of Stolen-Goods Dealers Evolve]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3622-2004Aug15.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3622-2004Aug15.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fences hand out "shopping lists" to thieves, give tours of target neighborhoods and now pull loot from thefts across the region into their District-based operations.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Officer  Convicted of PCP Possession]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58379-2004Aug11.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58379-2004Aug11.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A D.C. police officer was found guilty of possession of phencyclidine, PCP, yesterday and was ordered held without bond until his sentencing next month, officials said.]]></description><author> Nicole Fuller</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Go for the Guns]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26460-2004Jul3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26460-2004Jul3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Basic police work is actually a strategy with a bigger goal: to find people carrying guns on the streets of the District.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fewer D.C. Police Turn to the Lineup]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22512-2004Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22512-2004Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Although there are plenty of suspects, it is difficult to round up the fillers to stand beside them, which makes photo arrays much more convenient.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Police Arrested at High Rate, Cases Show]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16048-2004Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16048-2004Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thirteen police officers have been arrested so far this year for offenses including sexual assault, drunken driving and possession of PCP.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold  and Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Officer Accused of Sex Assault]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46741-2004Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46741-2004Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A D.C. police officer was charged with second-degree rape yesterday in an assault on his girlfriend's 17-year-old daughter, Montgomery County police said.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Police Try a Military Look]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3178-2004Mar17.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3178-2004Mar17.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The look of the average D.C. police officer has changed sharply in the last month, with many exchanging their usual slacks and light blue shirts for dark blue fatigues resembling those of military commandos.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Coverup Alleged After Mass Arrests]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48021-2004Mar10.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48021-2004Mar10.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/government/police</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:52:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey and other police officials conspired to deflect blame and cover up evidence of their wrongdoing during the mass arrests of anti-globalization demonstrators in September 2002, according to a D.C. Council committee that investigated the incident.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item></channel></rss>