7th district station is D.C.'s most awarded

The Metropolitan Police Department’s 7th District station stole the spotlight at the annual MPD awards ceremony last week, suspending the city’s long-standing stigma — at least for one night — of crime-ridden streets lying “east of the river.”

7D took home eight awards, including the department’s Best Performing District. Its officers had a breakthrough year despite presiding over Southeast neighborhoods like Anacostia and Congress Heights, known for high crime rates. In just a year, homicides in their district were cut by more than half: from 45 in 2010 to 20 last year.