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News that more than half of people arrested in D.C. are never tried for the crimes outrages people who live in, work in and visit the city, but the U.S....

Keeping criminals in jail, and not letting them loose among the general populace is the way to reverse the increasing homicide rate in Washington, according to Robert Contee, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

A D.C. police sergeant is charged with killing and violating the civil rights of a man who tried to drive away when police woke him up inside his running car.

 

The Washington, D.C. police chief argued during a news conference Tuesday that the solution to the city's rising homicides is to keep violent criminals off the streets and in prison.

Robert Contee, left, said the solution to stamping out DCs crime spree is to keep violent people in jail. He also revealed the average homicide suspect has eleven prior arrests before they murder.

Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee has offered a simple solution to the rising homicide rates in Washington: “We need to keep violent people in jail.”

D.C.'s criminal code has made national headlines for weeks. We explain the criminal code and what will change in the District after the vote on Capitol Hill.

The D.C. crime bill is now at the center of controversy over public safety and the capital's municipal sovereignty

D.C. is setting up a nightlife task force in Adams Morgan, where officials said crime has increased.