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(Washington, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser, Chief Robert J. Contee, III of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and Office of Unified Communications (OUC) Director Karima Holmes highlighted steps the District is taking to ensure a safe, happy holiday season. This year’s strategy includes deploying more than 100 recruit officers and cadets from the MPD Academy to assist, via foot patrol, in business corridors across the city.

A new training facility for police cadets opened Wednesday in Washington, D.C., as the District is trying to recruit and retain officers.

Photo: Protest against racist police brutality in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 18, in the library of Ballou Senior High school, an audience of students, p