An examination of citizen complaints and civil lawsuits filed against D.C. police over the past decade shows that even in a city with a majority-black department and a robust civilian oversight office with enhanced powers, hundreds of incidents a year occur in which people feel mistreated. Since 2005, the city has agreed or been ordered to pay at least $31.6 million in 173 cases alleging police misconduct, according to a Washington Post analysis of data obtained from the D.C. attorney general’s office.
   
 
News Alert Tue., Dec. 27, 2016 8:32 a.m.
  
 
‘It made me hate the police’: Ugly encounters with officers fuel loss of trust, costly payouts
An examination of citizen complaints and civil lawsuits filed against D.C. police over the past decade shows that even in a city with a majority-black department and a robust civilian oversight office with enhanced powers, hundreds of incidents a year occur in which people feel mistreated. Since 2005, the city has agreed or been ordered to pay at least $31.6 million in 173 cases alleging police misconduct, according to a Washington Post analysis of data obtained from the D.C. attorney general’s office.
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