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 Department has failed to publicly admit or recognize what could be described as an alarming rise in sexual assaults in the District of Columbia," Kristopher Baumann, chief of the [...]
On Wednesday, 18-year-old Robert Hanna was arrested in relation to the September death of Tony Randolph Hunter. Hanna is being charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of Hunter, a gay man, but some community members are more concerned with a charge that hasn’t been levied against Hanna: “Hate crime.” The Sept. 7 attack on [...]
The new sexual harassment lawsuit against Metropolitan Police Department photographic laboratory head William "Bill" Gresham details nearly 14 years of abuse within the D.C. police photo lab. The 14-page complaint, filed in federal court last week by 50-year-old MPD photographer Mary Gilkey, alleges years of routine verbal and physical sexual assault within the department.
In the [...]
