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The ACLU-DC supports full funding for the ONSE, but calls for better metrics on its success and for its independence from the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety.
The ACLU-DC called for more funding for the Office of Police Complaints so that it may expand its investigatory authority beyond citizen complaints to include anonymous complaints and keep pace with the recent increase in complaints.
The ACLU-DC called for no additional funding for the Metropolitan Police Department, and for an investigation of the Narcotics and Special Investigations Division.
Today, the ACLU of the District of Columbia sent a letter to Michael Horowitz, Inspector General for the Department of Justice, calling for an investigation of the prosecutions of more than 200 political demonstrators by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
The ACLU-DC called for the Metropolitan Police Department to fully comply with the stop-and-frisk data collection provision of the NEAR Act, and for an investigation of the Gun Recovery Unit.
Mayor Bowser is delivering a slap in the face to D.C. residents, who have no representation in Congress, by ignoring their representatives’ criminal-justice policy choices in favor of a federal system that D.C. residents had no voice in crafting.
