Investigations

Following D.C. Council member Trayon White’s bribery arrest earlier this month, the D.C. government has launched a wide-ranging review of violence interruption work. An affidavit released after White’s arrest alleges the D.C. Council member took bribes to influence violence interruption contracts within D.C.’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Enga...

With weeks to go before the 2024 election, experts in extremism and political violence are issuing warnings to families who see loved ones gravitating toward extreme ideology.

Days after an Internal Affairs Division (IAD) agent called News4 asking for names of confidential sources, D.C. police issued a division order to all Internal Affairs investigators to back off the practice. In the order, IAD Commander John Knutsen told all members of the IAD: “The IAD member shall not contact nor attempt to interview the media repr...

Nearly 2,700 MPD officers worked 33 extra hours each from July 21 to 27, costing about $8 million total, the department told News4 on Wednesday.

An average of 202 people each day since July 1 hang up on D.C. 911 after waiting at least 15 seconds on hold, data obtained by the News4 I-Team shows.

DC’s 911 computer system has experienced at least seven unplanned outages this year and a criminal probe has been opened into one of them.

D.C.’s 911 problems are taking a turn tonight. The News4 I-Team found out D.C. police officers are now trying to figure who leaked key information to News4. Today a D.C. police Internal Affairs agent contacted News 4 reporter Ted Oberg trying to find out how we knew about a family’s unanswered 911 call for help. Last week News4 reported...

An investigation by the Maryland Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Vulnerable Victims Unit found evidence of substandard care at a nursing home in Ellicott City. Investigators said problems they found inside the facility showed the company was violating the law and defrauding taxpayers. The owner of the Ellicott City Healthcare Center...

An assisted living facility in Ellicott City is being monitored for three years after evidence of substandard care was found. The News4 I-Team found facilities owned by the same company also have violations. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports....This story was shot by News4’s Jeff Piper, Steve Jones and Lance Ing, edited by Steve Jones and ...

While fewer checks are being written these days, check fraud continues to be widespread, and it’s surging. Many victims might not even know it’s happened to them.

D.C.’s 911 center had its second outage in two weeks Friday. It was due to a “connectivity disruption,” during which public safety agencies “transitioned to manual dispatch.”

Seven years after hundreds of people were arrested in D.C. protesting Donald Trump’s inauguration, those prosecutions are suddenly back in the spotlight after ethics violations were raised against the federal prosecutor in the case. The group that investigates complaints against D.C. lawyers, the D.C. Bar Board on Professional Responsibility, recen...

A family says they called 911 Friday after discovering their 5-month-old baby wouldn’t wake up from a nap, but they told police they could not get through to 911, the News4 I-Team confirmed. That child was pronounced dead during a 911 computer outage that afternoon. Two family members told police they called 911 Friday afternoon, according to two p...