Despite violence, D.C. officers remain on force

The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department has allowed more than two dozen officers to keep their jobs despite having killed or maimed several citizens and having cost the District millions of dollars in civil suits, an Examiner review found.

When he became chief in 1998, Charles Ramsey inherited a department that led the nation in shootings of citizens. Faced with a federal takeover, he invited the Justice Department to review and rebuild the department’s standards for the use of force.