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Angered, D.C. Police Call for E-Mails

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

In today's WaPo, Theola Labbé-DeBose and Robert E. Pierre report on an unusual police strategy: D.C. police, frustrated that a teenage robbery suspect they have arrested kept getting released, took to cyberspace yesterday in an unusual effort to lobby judges and city officials to keep him off the streets. Exasperated by the third arrest of the same suspect in a string of 21 robberies, a D.C. police official sent an electronic bulletin to residents of Columbia Heights pleading for them to flood Peter Nickles, the city's top attorney, with calls and e-mails demanding that the suspect not be released. As of last night, he hadn't been. Under the subject line "ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT," Inspector Edward Delgado said the teenager allegedly had been sneaking up behind victims, knocking them to the ground and swiping whatever he could: money, cellphones, iPods...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on November 22, 2008 (boomark / email).