The crowd outside Covenant Baptist Church in Congress Heights last night seemed none too friendly toward Councilmember Phil Mendelson, organizer of the evening's community meeting on public safety.
Clark Ray, who is challenging Mendelson for his at-large council seat, and his campaign team greeted all of the meeting's attendees with a targeted flier: "Another election year meeting in Ward [...]

Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells says he's planning to hold a hearing on juvenile absconders after it was revealed that one of the suspects arrested in the murder of middle school prinicipal Brian Betts had skipped out of a city group home just weeks before the crime.
"These places aren't secure and they're not meant to be,"  says [...]

Peaceoholics co-founder Ron Moten is denying allegations that his nonprofit group harbored three youths now suspected of murdering middle school principal Brian Betts.
The three teens–Sharif Lancaster, Deontra Gray, and Alante Saunders–had attended a Maryland retreat sponsored by Moten's organization, which aims to turn at-risk youths away from violence.
At the time of the retreat, which took [...]

"This is the anti-prison."
—Vincent Schiraldi, director of youth rehabilitation services, May 29

Vincent Schiraldi, the controversial head of the District's Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, will head the New York City probation department. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Schiraldi's appointment at a city hall press conference this morning.
The move brings to an end Schiraldi's long and contentious tenure here in the District. An outspoken advocate of [...]