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Then-U.S. Park Police Chief Pamela Smith discusses preparations for the upcoming 2022 State of the Union Address during a news conference, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Pamela Smith, first Black female D.C. police chief, takes over amid crime crisis

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

From left, City Administrator Kevin Donahue; District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser; Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, testify before a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser names Chief Ashan Benedict as city’s interim top cop

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, left, and Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III, speak during a news conference about the arrest of suspect in a recent string of attacks on homeless people, Tuesday, March 15, 2022, in Washington. A gunman suspected of stalking homeless people asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington, killing at least two people and wounding three others, was arrested early Tuesday, police said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Lawmakers hammer D.C.’s lead prosecutor during District crime hearing on Capitol Hill

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, accompanied by DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, right, speaks at a news conference on March 13, 2020, in Washington. Mendelson, head of the D.C. Council, said Monday, March 6, 2023, that he is withdrawing the capital city’s new criminal code from consideration, just before a U.S. Senate vote that seemed likely to overturn the measure. But it's unclear if the action will prevent the vote or spare President Joe Biden a politically charged decision on whether to endorse the congressional action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

D.C. Mayor Bowser, city police chief to appear before House oversight panel in May

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference on Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. Amid rising crime rates and spiraling public tensions over gun violence, Bowser and the legislative branches are locked in a public dispute over the future of crime prevention in the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget to add hundreds more traffic cameras to city streets

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Capital Bikeshare / photo The Washington Times

700 new e-bikes coming to D.C. in part of Bowser’s downtown push

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during opening statements during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington. Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name, and the subject of partisan attacks, during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than 5 decades of service. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

D.C. man rebukes Fauci’s COVID-19 vaccine pitch on video: ‘You all attack people with fear’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., calls for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Rep. Andrew Clyde formally objects to DC crime overhaul with weaker penalties

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference on Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. Amid rising crime rates and spiraling public tensions over gun violence, Bowser and the legislative branches are locked in a public dispute over the future of crime prevention in the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

D.C. mayor, council tell Congress to butt out of their criminal-code rift

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this file photo, a Metropolitan Police vehicle is parked on the other side of a tape police line along the Tidal Basin as cherry blossoms cover the trees, in Washington, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

House GOP fights D.C. proposal to go easier on crime

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference on March 15, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

D.C. mayor, police chief address violence concerns at community meeting

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

FILE - District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, center, arrives for a news conference ahead of DC Pride events, June 10, 2022, in Washington. At right is Japer Bowles, director of the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Affairs. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser glides to victory to win a third term

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

D.C. Jail (File photo)

Early release, removal of most mandatory minimums proposed in D.C.’s overhauled criminal code

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Christopher Geldart, then-director of the Homeland and Emergency Management Agency, waits to testify at a public oversight roundtable on the Emergency Preparedness for the 2013 Presidential Inauguration, held by D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson Thursday, De. 6, 2012 at the Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. Geldart, the deputy mayor for public safety and justice, was part of an argument that briefly turned physical with another man around 12:30 p.m. Saturday outside of the Ballston-area Gold’s Gym, according to WRC-TV, the local NBC affiliate. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

D.C. deputy mayor resigns following assault charges, residency concerns

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

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Judge rules D.C. restaurant can’t be fined for defying mayor’s COVID orders

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A group of Brazilian migrants make their way around a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Ariz., seeking asylum in the U.S. after crossing over from Mexico, June 8, 2021. Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and hours at the podium blasting the Biden administration policies have found two unlikely allies: Democratic mayors Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., and Eric Adams of New York. The mayors' recent overtures for federal aid is a response to Texas and Arizona busing migrants away from the border, a months-old practice that has been long on political theater and short on practical impact. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

D.C. Council approves new office to handle migrants bused to the city from Mexican border

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Delivering Illegal Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Sanctuary cities get a dose of reality thanks to Greg Abbott’s genius

By David Keene - The Washington Times

Welcome Illegal Immigrants to the DC Sanctuary City Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why is D.C.’s Mayor Bowser so afraid of illegal immigrants?

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

New York Mayor Eric Adams, left, and Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee, right, listen as Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference about the search for a gunman that has been targeting homeless men sleeping on the streets of Washington, and New York City, Monday, March 14, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

D.C. declares ‘emergency’ over migrants being bused into city

By Matt Delaney and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants hold Red Cross blankets after arriving at Union Station near the U.S. Capitol from Texas on buses on April 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Feds reject D.C.’s second request for National Guard help to handle migrants from Texas, Arizona

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times