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Celebrating 58 Years - Vol. 58, No. 51 • October 5 - 11, 2023
Acting MPD Chief Smith Touts Collaborative Approach in Updated Strategic Plan Confirmation Roundtable Highlights Various Community Perspectives By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
5The D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety hosted a confirmation roundtable for Acting MPD Chief Pamela Smith on Sept. 27. (WI File Photo/ Ja’Mon Jackson)
In the months since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced Metropolitan Police Acting Chief Pamela Smith as her pick for the District’s top law enforcement official, she has been making the rounds at churches, community meetings, and youth lunches to meet with constituents. As Smith explained at her confirmation roundtable, she has also been meeting public safety agency leaders
Some Black Men Critical of Council Response to Violent Crime
For nine weeks, Dalonta Crudup interacted with young Black male adults from other parts of the District at the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE) as part of what's known as the Pathways Program.
Along the road to the Pathways Program's 14th graduation ceremony, Crudup and 20 of his peers met business leaders, nonprofit managers and community organizers who helped them modify their behaviors and chart a path to personal and professional success. Under the watchful eye of ONSE staff members, Crudup, a Northwest resident hailing from Northeast, D.C., further solidified a cannabis dispensary and trucking business that he
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As Councilmember Pinto Introduces the ACTIVE Amendment Act, Another Pathways Cohort Graduates By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
and D.C. residents who are intimately involved in anti-violence efforts. Though she hasn’t completed her tour, Smith told the D.C. Council members who attended her confirmation roundtable that she plans to continue these efforts. “As we continue to come up with ways to deal with crime, it’s going to take time,” Smith said on Sept. 27 while speaking before the D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety.
By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer
5 ONSE Pathways Program Interim Director Kwelli D. Sneed, Dalonta Crudup and ONSE Program Manage Mishawn Freeman pose at the Pathways Program’s 14th graduation Ceremony on Sept. 29. ( Robert R. Roberts / The Washington Informer)
A group of rogue Republicans supporting former President Donald Trump has ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his position. The unprecedented action comes after McCarthy’s controversial deal-making with Democrats to avert a government shutdown. McCarthy, who had steadfastly resisted reaching out to Democrats, was on the losing end of a high-stakes political battle. The California representative’s efforts to broker the deal to keep the government working led
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