Indecent 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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