Neighbors in Foggy Bottom are outraged that they’re losing a popular police lieutenant who they say is being punished for his good deeds.

Lt. Phil Lanciano has been a fixture in the upscale neighborhood for years but he was recently — and suddenly — transferred to the ultraviolent 6th District, east of the Anacostia River. It’s a move that’s outraged neighbors, who say that police Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Adrian Fenty are asset-stripping their neighborhood.

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