District police allegedly yanked from patrols to do paperwork

Published August 25, 2006 4:00am ET



Dozens of D.C. police were called into headquarters for two days this week to fill out thousands of incomplete work forms that were to be delivered to the D.C. Council as part of the crime emergency, police sources say.

The council asked for the work forms so it could monitor the actions of the police department over the first 30 days of the crime emergency. But with the deadline approaching, D.C. police department officials realized that hundreds of documents were incomplete and some supervisors had simply written “unknown activity” for work that they couldn’t account for.

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