GLLU Police Blotter
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community: * Don't hit the door...
View ArticleMore On Police Shooting of Gay Man
Police have issued a press release concerning yesterday's police shooting of an allegedly suicidal gay man mourning the loss of his partner. There's not much more information here, but here's the...
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Inside the Condo of the Police Shooting Victim
Last night, a commenter on this blog made the connection between a Washington Blade story identifying the victim of yesterday's police shooting as David Kerstetter, and a 2003 Metro Weekly feature...
View ArticleElection Night Gay Bashing Near White House?
America's Most Wanted wants to know. Renee Rosenfeld, a producer of the show, wrote in to the D.C. Police 1st District Listserv yesterday, asking for information about "the beating [of] 2 guys waving a...
View ArticleSecret Service Officer Caught in Sex Sting
A Secret Service agent in an official vehicle approached an undercover D.C. police officer for sex last weekend. According to a report from Channel 8, the agent, a sergeant, "pulled up in a marked...
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Peter Meter Denied
Last month, I wrote a story about a sexual harassment complaint filed against D.C. police photo lab head William "Bill" Gresham. The story speculated on a finer point of the extremely graphic lawsuit...
View ArticleGeorgetown Sexual Assault Alert
NBC reports, and Loose Lips links, this alert about a sexual assault that occurred last weekend in Georgetown. D.C. police are on the lookout for a 25 to 28-year-old black man, about 5 feet 8 inches...
View ArticleHomophobic Police Graffiti Also Anti-Woman?
Chris Henderson over at upstart blog Just A Couple Questions posted a question for me and some other local news outlets yesterday: Why did media reports about the homophobic graffiti written on a D.C....
View ArticleGood Guys Trial: MPD Testimony
Second district D.C. police officer Robert Fennell, Jr., was on duty on the night of the fire. He testified today in court about responding to a report of the blaze. After he arrived on the scene, he...
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Man Madness: Fire Department Vs. D.C. Police
La la la, the contest continues, see the full 64-workplace bracket here, D.C. government I've got my eye on you this week, all right are you ready let's go show me your men! FIRE DEPARTMENT: Nothin'...
View ArticleGood Guys Trial: The Hotel Room
Detective Todd Gray, a 19-year veteran of the D.C. police department, is assigned to the arson task force. He was involved in securing the search warrant for Vasile Graure's arrest following the Nov....
View ArticleGLLU Police Blotter
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Read the last two weeks in police activity related to the GLBT community below....
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Inside the Death of David Kerstetter
City Paper's Jason Cherkis wrote this week's cover story on David Kerstetter, the gay Logan Circle man shot by D.C. police on Nov. 5. The story details Kerstetter's mental illness, addiction to crystal...
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The Week in GLBT Police Activity: Minor Stab Wound Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including minor stab...
View ArticleThe Week in GLBT Police Activity: Fugitive Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including consensual...
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The Week in GLBT Police Activity: Carry-Out Hate Crime Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including details...
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The Week in GLBT Police Activity: New Years Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including a New Years...
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The Week in GLBT Police Activity: Drunk Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including some very...
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The Week in GLBT Police Activity: Inauguration Crime Edition!
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. As the inauguration neared, police activity ramped up. A round-up of...
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The Week in GLBT Police Activity: Multi-Purpose Bathroom Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including bathrooms...
View ArticleHow Many Women Are Raped in D.C. Every Year?
According to a report from the Metropolitan Police Department, reported rapes in Washington, D.C. have remained pretty constant over the past three years: Reported rapes in 2006: 182 Reported rapes in...
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Gay Crime Log: Clubbing In Da Club Edition
Domestic violence victim leaves boyfriend, finds bus The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police...
View ArticleCop Offers “A Little of Licking” Before Arrest
Yesterday, Jason Cherkis reported on D.C. Police Officer Robert Schmidt’s solicitation arrest over on City Desk. Today, he uncovers a transcript of the exchange between Schmidt and the undercover cop...
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Gay Crime Log: Fuck Fred Phelps Edition
Yeah . . . get out of our fucking city. It's feast or famine over at the Gay Crime Log. The Sexist isn't sure what she did to anger the Gay Crime Gods, but for the past two weeks, her D.C. police...
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Gay Crime Log: Fast Food Fight Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including a juvie...
View ArticleAnti-Hate Crime Group To Meet With Lanier
GLOV (Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence) is holding an open community forum on Tuesday, June 2, with D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier. The deets: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Foundry United Methodist Church...
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Map That Sex Offender
D.C. police have launched a new feature for mapping sex offenders in your area. Since 2001, D.C. has provided the names, photographs, and addresses of registered sex offenders living in Washington;...
View ArticleGay Man Arrested For Mocking Police Bigotry
Pepin Tuma, a 33-year-old gay man, was discussing the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates with a few friends as they walked to Cobalt on July 26. At some point in the pre-bar jaunt,...
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$25,000 Reward Offered in Transgender Stabbing Case
The Metropolitan Police Department has issued a reward poster in the death of transgender woman Joshua Mack, a.k.a. "Na Na Boo" (pictured). The flier, which you can download here [PDF], doesn't...
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Who Botched the Gender Identity of a D.C. Homicide Victim?
Vigil attendees pay their respects to Tyli'a Mack. On Wednesday, Aug. 26, one person was killed and another critically injured in a daytime stabbing outside 209 Q St. NW. In the hours following the...
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“Men’s Party” Sex Club Victim May Have Broken Neck
At tonight's ANC 2F meeting, 3rd District Lieutenant Vanessa Moore provided some details into the police investigation of Sunday's sex club death at 1618 14th Street NW. The building has long been...
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D.C. Police Describe “Men’s Parties” Location: Used Condoms, Glory Holes, and...
On Wednesday, the District of Columbia filed suit to shut down "Men's Parties," the underground male sex club operating at 1618 14th Street NW. The lawsuit's three defendants—David J. Butler, 1618...
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“Men’s Parties” 911 Caller: “They Didn’t Want to Call the Police”
It's been over a month since a man died inside an underground sex club at 1618 14th Street NW. The club, operated by David J. Butler and the D.C. Wrestling Club, had been throwing near-nightly "Men's...
View ArticleD.C. Police’s Approach to LGBT Issues A “Severe Disappointment”
According to a coalition of LGBT activist groups, the D.C. police department's recent plans for dealing with crimes involving gay, lesbian, and transgender citizens have registered as a "severe...
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MPD Officer Groped By Suspect
One of the gripes leveled at the Sexist's recent groping coverage is that it has so far focused on only one category of victim—women. Men get groped, too, so let's hear one male victim's story. This...
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“I Wanted Him to Feel Physical Pain”: The Revenge Fantasies of Groping Victims
The man never even touched Miranda Vargas, but her body felt him. While riding the Metro, Vargas watched as a man with a “stale, semen smell” inched close to her, opened his legs, and “began playing...
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The State of Transgender Hate Crimes in D.C.
Last month, D.C. police released a report breaking down every hate crime reported in D.C. [PDF] over the past five years. In 2007, changes to the D.C. Human Rights Act required police to begin...
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How D.C. Police Fail Rape Victims
For this week's paper, I wrote a cover story on one young woman's crusade to secure a rape kit after she believed she had been drugged and raped at a college party. The D.C. police response to the...
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Sexual Harassment By Men In Uniform
This week, local street harassment blog Holla Back DC recorded two incidents of street harassment by local firefighters. In the year that Holla Back has been publicizing sexual harassment in the...
View ArticleSex Work and the Problem of the Teetering High-Heels
In her Friday Washington Post column, Petula Dvorak came to the realization that the District's sex workers aren't exclusively criminals—sometimes, they can be victims, too. Dvorak profiles Tina...
View ArticleIndecent Exposure Near Eliot Junior High School
View Larger Map D.C. police have released an alert about a "suspicious male individual" who is "attempting to make contact with adolescent females as they walk to school." The alert says that...
View ArticleD.C. Police Arrest 9 on Internet-Related, Prostitution-Related Crimes
This weekend, the D.C. police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, some Logan Circle hotels, and "community members" came together to stop nine people from trying to exchange money for sex over...
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D.C.’s Street Harassment Confrontation Gap
Five years ago, Emily May started up Holla Back New York City as a "little blog" for friends to share their experiences with sexual harassment on the streets of New York. Back then, May was...
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Barrier Method: How a 42-Inch Fence Is Threatening Our Nation’s Unborn
To the barricades: Mahoney is pro-life, anti-fence. On Tuesday, June 8, the Rev. Patrick Mahoney arrived at Planned Parenthood with the intention of going to jail over a fence. Two months earlier, the...
View ArticleSexual Assault Reports Way Up In D.C.
On WTOP's "Ask the Chief" program last week, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said that sexual assault reports are up in the District this year. In several of D.C.'s police districts, "they're up...
View ArticleFraternal Order of Police Calls for Investigation into D.C. Police Sexual...
The Fraternal Order of Police—representing D.C.'s 3600 police officers, detectives, and sergeants—has called for an investigation into the D.C. police department's reporting of sexual assault. "The...
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The Morning After: Fully Employed Housewife Edition
* Alyssa Rosenberg articulates my annoyance with the glamorization of "housewife": This is a show [Real Housewives] where the term that distinguishes the franchise, "housewife," is pretty much...
View ArticlePepin Tuma Sues D.C. Over False Arrest, Anti-Gay Slur
On July 26, 2009, Pepin Tuma and two friends were strolling down U Street, discussing "the excessive use of police powers" in the recent arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates. Within "seconds,"...
View ArticleD.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier on Disorderly Conduct, Pepin Tuma, and “Verbal...
On Friday, Pepin Tuma filed suit against the District of Columbia—and MPD officer James Culp—for violating his constitutional rights. Tuma's suit concerns a year-old U Street incident, in which Tuma...
View ArticleShould Drag Queens Pay to Race Down 17th Street?
FOX5 investigates why some D.C. special events—including D.C.'s traditional Halloween drag event, the Dupont "High Heel" race—aren't forced to pay the city fees for the D.C. police officers employed...
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