How 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...
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