When violent crime spiked in the dangerous 7th Police District this summer, D.C. officials tried to increase police presence.

But authorities quickly discovered that every available officer had been sent to man Chief Cathy Lanier’s neighborhood barricades on the other side of the city, e-mails obtained by The Examiner show.

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