AFRO - The District of Columbia, like several urban jurisdictions in the country, continues to be engulfed in a heated discussion over law enforcement funding. Many jurisdictions nationwide have made moves to actively decrease or defund law enforcement entities in an effort to meet the frustrated cries of largely African American and minority populated communities.| By Carl Thomas Special to the AFRO The District of Columbia Council committees have been busy in this last week of budget hearings across various categories, but two hot budget topics brought more than one thousand Washingtonians to the legislative conversation- funding for the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the Department of Corrections (DOC). Each […]
