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Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith steered the District to a 33% drop in violent crime so far in 2024 as she finished her first full year on the job Wednesday (Matt Delaney/The Washington Times)

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Robert J. Contee III, shown here, will serve as the new acting chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Dec. 22, 2020. (Photo courtesy the Metropolitan Police Department)

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This evidence photo provided by the Metropolitan Police Department shows the AR-15 assault weapon Edgar Maddison Welch of North Carolina brought in to a District of Columbia pizza restaurant on Dec. 4, 2016. Welch is set to be sentenced Thursday at a hearing in federal court in Washington. (Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

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This evidence photo provided by the Metropolitan Police Department shows a revolver Edgar Maddison Welch of North Carolina brought in to a District of Columbia pizza restaurant on Dec. 4, 2016.. Welch is set to be sentenced Thursday at a hearing in federal court in Washington. (Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

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In this photo released by the Metropolitan Police on Sunday, June 18, 2017, a view of an apartment in the Grenfell Tower after fire engulfed the 24-storey building, in London. Experts believe the exterior cladding, which contained insulation, helped spread the flames quickly up the outside of the public housing tower early Wednesday morning. Some said they had never seen a building fire advance so quickly. The 24-story tower that once housed up to 600 people in 120 apartments is now a charred ruin. (Metropolitan Police via AP)

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Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham speaks to the press Thursday, June 15, 2017, about arrests warrants issued for Turkish security officers involved in fighting that took place outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington D.C. (Laura Kelly/The Washington Times)

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This is an undated photo provided by the Metropolitan police on Thursday, June 8, 2017 of policeman Charlie Guenigault. Guenigault was off duty when he tried to fend off the London Bridge attackers and was badly injured during the incident on Saturday night. (Metropolitan Police via AP )

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This undated handout photo provided by the Metropolitan Police shows Khuram Shazad Butt. Police have named two of the London Bridge attack suspects as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane. (Metropolitan Police via AP)

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This undated handout photo provided by the Metropolitan Police shows Rachid Redouane. Police have named two of the London Bridge attack suspects as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane. (Metropolitan Police via AP)

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This undated handout photo provided by the Metropolitan Police shows Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane. Police have named two of the London Bridge attack suspects as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane. (Metropolitan Police via AP)

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Image released through the Metropolitan Police on Friday April 7, 2017 of Andreea Cristea with her boyfriend Andrei Burnaz. Cristea, a 31-year-old Romanian tourist who was knocked into the River Thames from Westminster Bridge during an attack on Britain's Houses of Parliament more than two weeks ago has died, London police said Friday. (Metropolitan Police via AP)

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Image released through the Metropolitan Police on Friday April 7, 2017 of Andreea Cristea. Cristea, a 31-year-old Romanian tourist who was knocked into the River Thames from Westminster Bridge during an attack on Britain's Houses of Parliament more than two weeks ago has died, London police said Friday. (Metropolitan Police via AP)

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Investigators with Metropolitan Police Department examine a vehicle after a pursuit Sunday, April 2, 2017, in Washington. According to Capt. David Sledge with the Metropolitan Police Department, officers arrested a man after the pursuit and rescued a female teen who was reported missing from a Charlotte, N.C., home. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Investigators with Metropolitan Police Department examine the scene after a pursuit Sunday, April 2, 2017, in Washington. According to Capt. David Sledge with the Metropolitan Police Department, officers arrested a man after the pursuit and rescued a girl who was reported missing from a Charlotte, N.C., home. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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FILE -- This undated file photo released by the Metropolitan Police, shows Khalid Masood, who authorities identified as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament March 22, 2017, in London. Masood, the British man who killed several people in a rampage in London last week made had three trips to Saudi Arabia in his lifetime. Though millions of foreigners from around the world live and work in the kingdom,Masood’s time there immediately raised questions about whether the country’s ultraconservative brand of Islam impacted his worldview. (Metropolitan Police via AP, File)

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Undated handout photo released by Metropolitan Police on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 of police officer Keith Palmer who was killed during the attack on the Houses of Parliament in London. A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage in the heart of Britain's seat of power Wednesday, plowing a car into pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. Five people were killed, including the assailant, and 40 others were injured in what Prime Minister Theresa May condemned as a "sick and depraved terrorist attack." (Metropolitan Police via AP)

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Darron Dylon Wint, 34, is being held in connection with a quadruple homicide which occurred on Thursday, May 14, 2015, in the 3200 block of Woodland Drive, Northwest, Washington, D.C. (Photos released by the Metropolitan Police Department)

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The Metropolitan Police are looking for three teenage girls who boarded a plane at Gatwick Airport, south of London, bound for Turkey. (Image: United Kingdom, Metropolitain Police)