Last Monday, At-Large Councilmember Phil Mendelson held one of his Judiciary Committee's oversight hearings on the D.C. Police Department. For the most part, the hearing was routine: right down to the councilmember asking for the investigative materials related to the DeOnte Rawlings shootings. By Mendo's own count, he has asked for the Rawlings report at least three times.

At Monday's hearing, D.C.Police Chief Cathy Lanier and her top brass assured Mendelson that he would have the Rawlings case report on his desk very soon. The expection was for a Friday deadline. In an editorial the day of the deadline, the Post urged the police department to release more information about shootings--including the details on the recent police shooting death of a bus driver. We'd like the records behind the David Kerstetter shooting on November 6. And the Osman Abdullahi shooting in late February. The Post sort of piggybacked on David Simon's own editorial in its newspaper a few weeks ago.

So is it shocking that on Friday, the D.C. Police failed to give Mendelson the DeOnte Rawlings report? Of course not. This is what the department does with such things.

"I think that's still at the factory for redactions," Mendelson joked during a phone interview. It was 5 p.m. on Friday. "This is at least the third time I've asked for the D. Rawlings report."

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Here's a super uniformed rant: Since November, D.C. Police Department cops have shot and killed three people (including one on Sunday). You'd think the D.C. City Council would be enraged at these incidents and want to get to the bottom of these cases. Yesterday, At-Large Councilmember Phil Mendelson held an oversight hearing on the police department where he was free to question Chief Cathy Lanier and other department brass. Maybe Mendo---and junior crimefigher Jim Graham---got around to the police shootings. But for the hour I caught, I got nothing but intense bean counting, Grahamstanding (typical), and pats on the back (overtime pay is under control). Ugh. I need to watch the rest of the hearing! It appears that Mendo did ask some tough questions!

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