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Materials from the Metropolitan Police Department:

  • Citizen Complaint Report Form, PD-99

Materials on the Metropolitan Police Department.

  • Neighborhood Safety Zone Initiative
  • Mayor Adrian Fenty, MPD Chief Cathy Lanier, Gun Violence
    Programs: GunStat, “Safe Homes” Initiative, Crime Tip Line, March
    12, 2008
  • Mayor Adrian Fenty, Chief of Police Cathy Lanier, Attorney General
    Linda Singer, 2006 Annual Report on Guns in the District of
    Columbia,     August 15, 2007
  • Fenty, Lanier Commit to Increased, Customized Community Policing,
    press release and plan, January 5, 2007
  • Nomination of Cathy Lanier as Chief of Police, November
    20, 2006
  • Chief of Police Charles Ramsey, resignation letter of agreement, November
    17, 2006
  • Metropolitan Police Department, Operation TIPP: A Program Designed to
    Detect and Prevent Terrorism in the Nation’s Capital, July
    13, 2005
  • Metropolitan Police Department, et al., Homicide Reduction Strategy
    for the District of Columbia, March 31, 2005
  • Metropolitan Police Department, Project Safe Neighborhoods Media Campaign
    Overview, March 31, 2005
  • US District Court for the District of Columbia, Settlement Agreement in
    Abbate, et al., v. Chief Charles H. Ramsey, January
    24, 2005
  • City Council, Committee on the Judiciary, Report on Investigation of the
    Metropolitan Police Department’s Policy and Practice in handling
    Demonstrations in the District of Columbia, March
    24, 2004

    • Draft of report, March
      11, 2004
    • Councilmember Kathy Patterson, letter to Mayor Anthony Williams on
      the Committee report, March 15, 2004
    • See also the report by Ralph Temple for the American Civil Liberties
      Union of the National Capital Area, The Policing of Demonstrations in
      the Nation’s capital: A Misconception of Mission and a Failure of
      Leadership, December
      2002
  • Proposed Police Service Area (PSA) boundaries compared with current
    Advisory Neighborhood Commission boundaries, February
    2004
  • Ballou Senior High School Safety Plan, Second Draft, February
    18, 2004
  • Michael Latessa, New 911 Director, to Begin in February, January
    26, 2004
  • Severance Pay, Term of Office and Voluntary Retirement Modifications
    for Chief of Police Charles H. Ramsey Emergency Declaration Resolution
    of 2003, PR 15-210; Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department
    Compensation System Changes Emergency Declaration Resolution of
    2003, PR 15-252; Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department
    Compensation System Changes Emergency Approval Resolution of 2003,
    PR 15-253; Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department
    Compensation System Changes Approval Resolution of 2003, PR
    15-254    . 

    • City Council Committee of the Whole, Committee on the Judiciary,
      and Committee on Government Operations joint public hearing on
      proposed pay raise for MPD Chief Ramsey, June 17, 2003

    • Letter of agreement between Mayor Williams and Metropolitan Police
      Department Chief Ramsey on salary and benefits increases, May
      7, 2003
    • Executive Office of the Mayor, talking points promoting pay raise,
      May 2003
    • Christia Alou, Acting Director, DC Office of Latino Affairs,
      E-mail urging OLA grantees and Latin American embassies to lobby for
      Chief Ramsey’s pay raise, June 13, 2003
  • Councilmember Kathy Patterson, “Patterson Criticizes Mayor for
    Inaction on Rights Violations,” February
    26, 2003
  • MPD Internal Reports on police misconduct at the IMF/World Bank
    protests, January 25, 2003 and following
  • Committee on the Judiciary public oversight roundtable on the
    Metropolitan Police Department’s performance in homicide
    investigations, January 21, 2003

  • Draft proposed rulemaking on Closed Circuit Television Cameras
    (surveillance cameras), June 13, 2002
  • General Order on Closed Circuit Television Cameras (surveillance
    cameras), April 4, 2002
  • Councilmember Kathy Patterson, letter to Chief Charles Ramsey on the
    “Progress Report on Homicide Reviews,” July
    9, 2001
  • Progress Report on Homicide Reviews, Office of Quality Assurance,
    Metropolitan Police Department, June 26, 2001
  • Memorandum of Agreement on the Use of Force between the Metropolitan
    Police Department and the Department of Justice, June
    13, 2001

  • Committee on the Judiciary, DC City Council, Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Analysis and Markup Report, Excerpt on
    the Metropolitan Police Department, April 2001
  • Committee on the Judiciary, DC City Council, Oversight Report on the
    Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Investigative Practices and
    Case Closure Rate, February 27, 2001
  • District of Columbia Auditor, Review of Metropolitan Police Department Vehicles
    Purchased During Fiscal Years 1996 and 1997, August 7,
    2000
  • Announcement of the Gun Buy-Back program, May 15, 2000
  • Chief Charles Ramsey testimony on FY99 spending and performance and status of FY2000
    spending and performance for the Metropolitan Police Department, February
    14, 2000
  • Chief Charles Ramsey testimony on “The Police Deployment Act of 1999,” November 30, 1999
  • “Know the Facts About DC’s Curfew Law,” September 7,
    1999
  • Testimony to the DC City Council, Committee on the Judiciary, on the Metropolitan Police
    Department Management Reform Act of 1999, Bill 13-42,
    on July 13, 1999

  • Crime statistics for first half of 1999, released July 11, 1999
  • Chief Charles Ramsey testimony on the FY2000 MPD budget to the City Council Committee on
    the Judiciary, March 29, 1999
  • “Metropolitan Police Department Management Reform Act of 1999,” Bill 13-42, January 6, 1999
  • Chief Charles Ramsey, letter to Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder requesting Justice
    Department investigation of police shootings, January 6, 1999
  • Inspector General, “Cash Verification of the Metropolitan Police Department’s
    Main Imprest Fund, IF-FA-39,” November 13, 1998
  • U.S. General Accounting Office, “District of Columbia: Metropolitan Police
    Department’s Use of $15 Million Appropriation,” GAO/AIMD-99-21, November 13, 1998
  • “Metropolitan Police Department Management Reform Act of 1998,” Bill 12-816, October 21, 1998
  • Report of the Speical Committee on Police Misconduct and Personnel Management of the
    Council of the District of Columbia, October 6, 1998
  • Chief Charles H. Ramsey, “Rebuilding the Metropolitan Police Department: For a
    Safer Capital City,” September 9, 1998
  • Inspector General’s office, Investigation of the Metropolitan Police
    Department’s 911 and 1010 Emergency Telephone System, June
    1998
  • Testimony of Charles H. Ramsey, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, to the DC
    City Council, Special Committee on Police Misconduct and Personnel Management, on
    complaint and disciplinary procedures, June 30, 1998
  • House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the District of
    Columbia, hearing on public safety, June 24, 1998

  • House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on
    the District of Columbia, hearing on the DC MPD oversight and Federal law enforcement
    assistance, May 8, 1998

  • Charles H. Ramsey appointed as Chief of Police
    • Statement of the MOU Partners
    • Compensation letter from MOU Partners
    • Résumé of Charles H. Ramsey
    • Confirmation resolution of 1998, PR 12-699
    • Salary Adjustment Approval Resolution of 1998, PR
      12-700
    • Charles Ramsey’s written testimony at his confirmation hearing, April
      20, 1998
    • What the MPD needs, testimony by Dorothy Brizill at Chief Ramsey’s confirmation hearing,
      April 20, 1998
    • Employment agreement with Charles Ramsey, April 21, 1998
    • Corporation Counsel John Ferren’s letter calling Mayor Barry’s agreement to
      Chief Ramsey’s contract a “legal nullity,” April 23,
      1998
    • “Laying the Foundation for a New Beginning: The Next Steps,” statement by
      Charles H. Ramsey, Chief, Metropolitan Police Department, May 11,
      1998
  • Letters from Boraks and Jamnback, lawyers for the fired
    Commanders, to Chief Proctor, March 4, 1998, and March 18, 1998
  • Interim Chief Sonya Proctor refuses to explain the dismissals,
    and claims her powers of appointment and dismissals are bound by no laws or regulations,
    February 20, 1998
  • Letter by Jack Evans to Interim Chief of Police Sonya Proctor,
    asking for an explanation of the dismissals of Commanders Reginald Smith, Winfred Stanley,
    and John Daniels, February 17, 1998
  • Testimony by Interim Chief of Police Sonya T. Proctor before
    the City Council’s Committee on the Judiciary oversight roundtable hearing, February 11,
    1998
  • "Take-Home Cars and Obeying the Law," an E-mail to
    DCWatch, February 8, 1998
  • Special Committee Resolution: Resolution Rules of Organization
    and Procedure for the Special Committee on Police Misconduct and Personnel Management,
    January 20, 1998
  • Press release: Mark Tuohey to lead Council’s Police Inquiry,
    January 15, 1997
  • Bill 12-516, A bill proposed by
    Councilmember Harold Brazil to establish an "Independent Commission to Investigate
    Allegations of Police Corruption"
  • Letter of Robert E. Deso to U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova,
    alleging criminal and ethical violations and irregularities in the MPD drug testing
    procedures in 1987, July 17, 1987
  • Testimony of Dorothy Brizill, "Will E. Barrett
    Prettyman, Jr., Be a Good Inspector General?" January 8, 1997
  • E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., is appointed as Inspector General,
    December 30, 1997
  • City Council Resolution to
    establish a special committee on police misconduct, December 16, 1997
  • Statement by Interim Chief Sonya T. Proctor on Metropolitan
    Police Department Ethics and Integrity, December 15, 1997
  • Letter of U.S. Attorney Mary Lou Leary to Andrew Brimmer,
    asserting the U.S. Attorney’s Office predominance in the investigation of police
    corruption and mismanagement, December 15, 1997
  • Testimony of Dorothy Brizill to the City Council
    Committee on the Judiciary, December 12, 1997
  • Letter from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton to U.S. Attorney
    designee Wilma Lewis, December 10, 1997
  • Norman Roberts & Associates, Inc., draft recruitment profile
    for the next DC chief of police, December 1997
  • Testimony of Sergeants Harry Hill and Christopher Sanders to
    the City Council Committee on the Judiciary, December 5, 1997
  • Mayor Barry Forming Search Committee for New DC Police Chief,
    press release, December 3, 1997
  • Résumé of Acting Chief Sonya Proctor, distributed November
    25, 1997.
  • Dear Colleague letter by Rep. Charles Taylor about Booz-Allen’s
    bill for writing the MPD mission statement, November 10, 1997
  • Testimony of Chief Larry Soulsby to the DC Financial
    Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority on October 22, 1997
  • Metropolitan Police Department Milestones Report, presented
    to the DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority on October 22, 1997
  • Statement of Mark Thompson, facilitator of the NAACP
    Metropolitan Police and Criminal Justice Review Task Force to the DC Financial
    Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority on October 22, 1997
  • Control Board Member Stephen Harlan’s defense of Chief Larry
    Soulsby, a letter to the Washington Post dated October 20, 1997
  • City Council Committee on the Judiciary Hearing, October 10, 1997
  • Press release of the Washington Interfaith Network on October
    10, 1997
  • Testimony of Chief Larry Soulsby to the House Subcommittee on
    the District, September 26, 1997
  • Executive Order by Marion Barry delegating personnel authority
    in the MPD to the Chief of Police, February 26, 1997
  • Resolution of the DC Financial Responsibility and Management
    Assistance Authority concerning the MPD, February 26, 1997