News & Commentary

WMATA’s Investigations Review Panel released a two-page report outlining its short analysis of four cases of complaints against Metro Transit Police Department officers in 2019. Unfortunately, but predictably, it falls short of what’s needed to accomplish true oversight and accountability of MTPD.

A plaintiff in Horse v. D.C. reflects on the 2017 Inauguration and the mass arrest and excessive force deployed by D.C. police that day.

Today marks the 150th anniversary of a key federal civil rights law.

We can't win D.C. statehood without nationwide support. Remind your friends and family across the country to urge their members of Congress that supporting D.C. statehood is essential in the fight for full and equal voting rights for all Americans!

The release of the D.C. Police Reform Commission report recognized D.C.'s need for surveillance oversight legislation, an action the Community Oversight of Surveillance has advocated for the past few years. Is D.C. ready to recognize the dangers of unchecked government surveillance?

Events over the past year reinforce how D.C.’s lack of statehood continues to wreak havoc on the health, safety, and daily lives of its 712,000 residents.