DC Police are investigating after a Sixth District email urging more arrests was rescinded over “an error in language.”
WASHINGTON — An email sent within the Metropolitan Police Department’s Sixth District is under review after it appeared to instruct officers to stop “not making” arrests.
The email, with the subject line “making an arrest” was sent last Thursday at 9:44 a.m. by Sixth District Capt. Jerome Merrill, who oversees Sector Two. In it he writes that supervisors were seeing more and more body-worn camera footage “showing officers not making arrests when probable cause or a RAS [reasonable
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