Investigations

When people in the District are sentenced to longer sentences, they can be held in federal prisons anywhere in the country. For more than a year, the News4 I-Team has investigated how some of those inmates say they’re often targeted. Since the I-Team started looking into the issue, the recent deaths of two D.C. men were listed as...

D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto Pinto pledged to hold monthly oversight hearings to figure out what needs fixing at the 911 center. She said she will conduct unannounced visits to the center every other week

In a court filing this week, one-time D.C. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens denied any wrongdoing while prosecuting hundreds of protesters arrested in D.C. during Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

For the past year, the News4 I-Team has investigated deaths of D.C. inmates serving time in federal prisons and the unanswered questions their families have. Now, a second death in recent months has been ruled a homicide.

With weeks to go before the 2024 election, experts in extremism and political violence are issuing warnings to families who see loved ones gravitating toward extreme ideology.

Nearly 2,700 MPD officers worked 33 extra hours each from July 21 to 27, costing about $8 million total, the department told News4 on Wednesday.

An average of 202 people each day since July 1 hang up on D.C. 911 after waiting at least 15 seconds on hold, data obtained by the News4 I-Team shows.

DC’s 911 computer system has experienced at least seven unplanned outages this year and a criminal probe has been opened into one of them.