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He also mentions that at the time he left DYRS, "just 7 percent of DYRS-supervised youths are on runaway status today, compared with 26 percent in 2003. Homicides by youths in DYRS's care have fallen, from 1.1 percent of our youth in 2007 and 2008 to 0.7 percent in 2009, and in the past year juvenile homicide arrests citywide have declined at ...
District of Columbia flag Badge of a Deputy U.S. Marshal. This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the District has six local law enforcement agencies employing 4,262 sworn police officers, about 722 for each 100,000 residents.
The number of homicides in Washington peaked in 1991 at 482, [2] a rate of 80.6 homicides per 100,000 residents, [3] and the city eventually became known as the "murder capital" of the United States. [4] The crime rate started to fall in the mid-1990s as the crack cocaine epidemic gave way to economic revitalization projects. Neighborhood ...
D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. was arrested Sunday on federal bribery charges, the Justice Department announced Monday. A criminal complaint alleges that, starting in June, White agreed to ...
The Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) is the District of Columbia's head juvenile justice agency and is responsible for placing DC community youth who are in its oversight in detention, commitment, and aftercare programs. [35] DYRS offers and operates a range of services and placements for their committed youth.
Months later, as violent crime continued to climb, the D.C. Council moved the other direction, voting 12-1 in favor of the first of several pieces of emergency legislation to tackle crime, by ...
DC Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Headquarters; DC Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters and facilities; DC Office of Unified Communications facilities (911 centers, communications towers, etc.) DC Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (Parole and Probation) DC Department of Motor Vehicles Service ...
The move also complicated the agency’s relationships with Congress and other federal offices — there are no direct flights between Washington, DC, and Grand Junction, for example — and ended ...