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Cathy L. Lanier
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Cathy Lynn Lanier (born July 22, 1967) is the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC). Lanier was appointed by Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty in January 2007, replacing outgoing Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey. She is the first woman to achieve the position. In May 2012, Mayor Vincent C. Gray agreed to retain Lanier as police chief under a new five-year contract.
Early life and education
Lanier was raised in suburban Tuxedo, Maryland, on the northeast edge of the District of Columbia in Prince George's County, Maryland.
She has both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in management from Johns Hopkins University and holds a Master of Arts in national security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California; her thesis was Preventing Terror Attacks in the Homeland: A New Mission for State and Local Police.[2] She attended an executive education program at Harvard Kennedy School. She also performed part of her undergraduate studies at Prince George's Community College, and the University of the District of Columbia - where she also received her GED.[3]
Lanier dropped out of junior high school after the ninth grade, and became a mother at the age of 15.[4] She now resides in the Fort Lincoln area of northeast Washington's Ward 5, close to her hometown.[citation needed]
Career
Lanier joined the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia in 1990 as a foot patrolman. In 1994 she was promoted to Sergeant, and, two years later, a Lieutenant, before becoming a patrol supervisor. In 1999, she became a Captain and, later that year, was promoted to Inspector and placed in charge of the Department's Major Narcotics Branch/Gang Crime Unit. In August 2000, she was promoted to Commander-in-Charge of the Fourth District of the city. In April 2006, she became the Commander at the Office of Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism, Office of the Chief of Police in MPDC, overseeing, among other things, the bomb squad and the emergency response team.[5]
Lanier came under fire in July 2009 after claiming that motorists who used GPS navigation and smartphones to avoid traffic cameras were employing a "cowardly tactic".[6]
Lanier has defended the practice of arresting individuals reselling tickets to sporting events, even if the tickets were sold at face value.[7] The tactic has led to the arrest of out of town visitors who had extra tickets to see the Washington Nationals.[8]
She publicly criticized a plainclothes officer, Detective Michael Baylor, who drew his gun on a group of civilians during a Washington, D.C., Twitter-organized snowball fight as a response to snowballs hitting his vehicle on 19 December 2009. Video footage and eye-witness accounts have been used in the investigation. Baylor was placed on desk duty during the investigation[9] but returned to active duty following the completion of the investigation.[10]
References
Jump up ^ Duggan, Paul (9 May 2012). "D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier gets new 5-year contract". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
Jump up ^ Lanier's Masters Thesis Preventing Terror Attacks in the Homeland: A New Mission for State and Local Police, September 2005
Jump up ^ Nakamura, David; Klein, Allison; Schneider, Howard (20 November 2006). "Fenty Picks Lanier for D.C. Police Chief". The Washington Post.
Jump up ^ CNN Newsroom interview transcript
Jump up ^ Sari Horowitz (12 June 2005). "Israeli Experts Teach Police On Terrorism: Training Programs Prompt Policy Shifts". The Washington Post.
Jump up ^ Peterson, Hayley (6 July 2009). "Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
Jump up ^ "D.C. police chief: Scalpers can be arrested". WTOP. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
Jump up ^ "Welcome, baseball fan. Go directly to jail.". The Washington Post. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
Jump up ^ Maria Glod; Theola Labbé-DeBose (22 December 2009). "Lanier blasts detective for pulling gun at snowball fight". The Washington Post.
Jump up ^ Stabley, Matthew (4 March 2010). "Pulling a Gun at a Snowball Fight Not a "Termination Offense"". NBC Washington. Retrieved 13 February 2012. "As soon as this whole process wraps up, he'll be put back to duty," Lanier said.
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Charles H. Ramsey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Ramsey
Charles H. Ramsey (born 1950), is the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department. Prior to assuming that post in January 2008, he had served as Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) from 1998 to early 2007.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, he joined the Chicago Police Department as an 18-year-old cadet in 1968. After serving six years as a patrol officer, he was promoted to sergeant in 1977. He was appointed a lieutenant in 1984 and became captain in 1988. He served as Commander of the Narcotics Section from 1989 to 1992 before spending two years as a Deputy Chief of the police force's Patrol Division. In 1994, he was appointed Deputy Superintendent.
In 1998, he became the MPDC chief. During his tenure, he was involved in several high-profile cases as chief of police in Washington, D.C., such as the Chandra Levy murder investigation. He has also been in the spotlight since the September 11 attacks focused attention on security issues around Washington, D.C.
Ramsey is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.
He has served as an adjunct professor at Lewis University and Northwestern University.
Career as Washington, D.C. police chief
Ramsey's eight-year tenure as Chief of Police saw crime rates decline about 40%, the expansion of community policing and traffic safety programs, and improved MPDC recruiting and hiring standards, training, equipment, facilities and fleet. He reorganized the department to cut bureaucracy, and created Regional Operations Commands to oversee the quality of D.C. police services.[citation needed] He helped to create a non-emergency 3-1-1 system and made crime information readily available to the public through CrimeReports.com.
He and his department assisted the Department of Homeland Security during the state funerals of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.
Traffic checkpoints
Under Ramsey, the D.C, police instituted traffic checkpoints at which information about motorists who were breaking no law at the time was entered into a database. The move was called an "invasion of privacy" by an official of the police union.[1]
Pershing Park arrests
On September 27, 2002, the MPD made a mass arrest of a large group of demonstrators who had assembled in DC's Pershing Park to protest the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings. The police enclosed over 400 people in the park and arrested them without ordering them to disperse or allowing them to leave the park. Many of the arrested were not actually demonstrators, but were journalists, legal observers, and pedestrians.
On January 13, 2006, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled that the arrests violated the Fourth Amendment and that Chief Ramsey could be held personally liable for the violations. On August 2, 2007, City officials in Washington agreed to pay $1 million to more than 120 of the protesters, on top of other settlements by the D.C. government, including one for $640,000.[2] Ramsey was represented by Mark Tuohey who generated at least $1.53 million in fees for his law firm Vinson & Elkins.[3][4]
According to testimony given by Detective Paul Hustler, Ramsey himself gave the arrest order, although he has repeatedly denied this. Hustler claims he overheard Ramsey say "We're going to lock them up and teach them a lesson." [5]
Resignation from MPDC
On November 20, 2006, Ramsey announced that he would step down as police chief on January 2, 2007, the inauguration day of Washington, D.C Mayor-Elect Adrian M. Fenty. Fenty selected Cathy Lanier, a 39-year-old commander of the MPDC's Homeland Security Division, as his replacement.
Even though Ramsey's official last day was December 28, 2006, he stayed on until January 2, to deal with security during the state funeral of former president Gerald Ford.[citation needed]
Philadelphia Police Commissioner
On November 15, 2007, Philadelphia Mayor Elect Michael Nutter nominated Ramsey as Police Commissioner.[6] Ramsey came out of retirement to accept the position, and he was sworn in at the beginning of Nutter's term as Mayor on January 7, 2008.
Since Commissioner Ramsey assumed his position, the city's homicide rate has dropped 37 percent and violent crime nearly 20 percent. In the city's nine most dangerous precincts, which account for 65% of homicides and 75% of shootings, homicides are down by over 40 percent. Ramsey's tactics have included installing a network of surveillance cameras in the city's most dangerous sections, increasing the number of cops on the beat, and moving police patrols out of their squad cars and onto foot patrols or bicycle patrols.[7] In 2014 President Obama selected Commissioner Ramsey to serve as Co-Chair of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Commissioner Ramsey has also served as President of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) and the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA).
References
Jump up ^ Lengel, Allan. "Safety Stops Draw Doubts". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Nutter's Musharraf?". Attytood. 2011-12-01. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
Jump up ^ Jason Cherkis (January 17, 2003). "Boss Hogtie". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
Jump up ^ Jeff Jeffrey (May 26, 2010). "Mark Tuohey Leaves Vinson & Elkins for Brown Rudnick, Cites Retirement Policy". The Legal Times. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
Jump up ^ Cherkis, Jason (2009-11-18). "Affidavit: Ramsey Ordered Pershing Park Arrests - City Desk". Washingtoncitypaper.com. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
Jump up ^ Mayor-Elect Michael Nutter Announces New Police Commissioner on YouTube
Jump up ^ Mabrey, Vicki; Reynolds, Talesha (21 Aug 2008). "Murder and Mayhem' Decline on Streets of Philadelphia". ABC News. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
External links[edit]
Charles H. Ramsey-Philadelphia Police Department
Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Charles H. Ramsey from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_L._Lanier
Cathy Lynn Lanier (born July 22, 1967) is the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC). Lanier was appointed by Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty in January 2007, replacing outgoing Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey. She is the first woman to achieve the position. In May 2012, Mayor Vincent C. Gray agreed to retain Lanier as police chief under a new five-year contract.
Early life and education
Lanier was raised in suburban Tuxedo, Maryland, on the northeast edge of the District of Columbia in Prince George's County, Maryland.
She has both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in management from Johns Hopkins University and holds a Master of Arts in national security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California; her thesis was Preventing Terror Attacks in the Homeland: A New Mission for State and Local Police.[2] She attended an executive education program at Harvard Kennedy School. She also performed part of her undergraduate studies at Prince George's Community College, and the University of the District of Columbia - where she also received her GED.[3]
Lanier dropped out of junior high school after the ninth grade, and became a mother at the age of 15.[4] She now resides in the Fort Lincoln area of northeast Washington's Ward 5, close to her hometown.[citation needed]
Career
Lanier joined the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia in 1990 as a foot patrolman. In 1994 she was promoted to Sergeant, and, two years later, a Lieutenant, before becoming a patrol supervisor. In 1999, she became a Captain and, later that year, was promoted to Inspector and placed in charge of the Department's Major Narcotics Branch/Gang Crime Unit. In August 2000, she was promoted to Commander-in-Charge of the Fourth District of the city. In April 2006, she became the Commander at the Office of Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism, Office of the Chief of Police in MPDC, overseeing, among other things, the bomb squad and the emergency response team.[5]
Lanier came under fire in July 2009 after claiming that motorists who used GPS navigation and smartphones to avoid traffic cameras were employing a "cowardly tactic".[6]
Lanier has defended the practice of arresting individuals reselling tickets to sporting events, even if the tickets were sold at face value.[7] The tactic has led to the arrest of out of town visitors who had extra tickets to see the Washington Nationals.[8]
She publicly criticized a plainclothes officer, Detective Michael Baylor, who drew his gun on a group of civilians during a Washington, D.C., Twitter-organized snowball fight as a response to snowballs hitting his vehicle on 19 December 2009. Video footage and eye-witness accounts have been used in the investigation. Baylor was placed on desk duty during the investigation[9] but returned to active duty following the completion of the investigation.[10]
References
Jump up ^ Duggan, Paul (9 May 2012). "D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier gets new 5-year contract". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
Jump up ^ Lanier's Masters Thesis Preventing Terror Attacks in the Homeland: A New Mission for State and Local Police, September 2005
Jump up ^ Nakamura, David; Klein, Allison; Schneider, Howard (20 November 2006). "Fenty Picks Lanier for D.C. Police Chief". The Washington Post.
Jump up ^ CNN Newsroom interview transcript
Jump up ^ Sari Horowitz (12 June 2005). "Israeli Experts Teach Police On Terrorism: Training Programs Prompt Policy Shifts". The Washington Post.
Jump up ^ Peterson, Hayley (6 July 2009). "Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
Jump up ^ "D.C. police chief: Scalpers can be arrested". WTOP. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
Jump up ^ "Welcome, baseball fan. Go directly to jail.". The Washington Post. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
Jump up ^ Maria Glod; Theola Labbé-DeBose (22 December 2009). "Lanier blasts detective for pulling gun at snowball fight". The Washington Post.
Jump up ^ Stabley, Matthew (4 March 2010). "Pulling a Gun at a Snowball Fight Not a "Termination Offense"". NBC Washington. Retrieved 13 February 2012. "As soon as this whole process wraps up, he'll be put back to duty," Lanier said.
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Charles H. Ramsey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Ramsey
Charles H. Ramsey (born 1950), is the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department. Prior to assuming that post in January 2008, he had served as Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) from 1998 to early 2007.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, he joined the Chicago Police Department as an 18-year-old cadet in 1968. After serving six years as a patrol officer, he was promoted to sergeant in 1977. He was appointed a lieutenant in 1984 and became captain in 1988. He served as Commander of the Narcotics Section from 1989 to 1992 before spending two years as a Deputy Chief of the police force's Patrol Division. In 1994, he was appointed Deputy Superintendent.
In 1998, he became the MPDC chief. During his tenure, he was involved in several high-profile cases as chief of police in Washington, D.C., such as the Chandra Levy murder investigation. He has also been in the spotlight since the September 11 attacks focused attention on security issues around Washington, D.C.
Ramsey is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.
He has served as an adjunct professor at Lewis University and Northwestern University.
Career as Washington, D.C. police chief
Ramsey's eight-year tenure as Chief of Police saw crime rates decline about 40%, the expansion of community policing and traffic safety programs, and improved MPDC recruiting and hiring standards, training, equipment, facilities and fleet. He reorganized the department to cut bureaucracy, and created Regional Operations Commands to oversee the quality of D.C. police services.[citation needed] He helped to create a non-emergency 3-1-1 system and made crime information readily available to the public through CrimeReports.com.
He and his department assisted the Department of Homeland Security during the state funerals of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.
Traffic checkpoints
Under Ramsey, the D.C, police instituted traffic checkpoints at which information about motorists who were breaking no law at the time was entered into a database. The move was called an "invasion of privacy" by an official of the police union.[1]
Pershing Park arrests
On September 27, 2002, the MPD made a mass arrest of a large group of demonstrators who had assembled in DC's Pershing Park to protest the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings. The police enclosed over 400 people in the park and arrested them without ordering them to disperse or allowing them to leave the park. Many of the arrested were not actually demonstrators, but were journalists, legal observers, and pedestrians.
On January 13, 2006, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled that the arrests violated the Fourth Amendment and that Chief Ramsey could be held personally liable for the violations. On August 2, 2007, City officials in Washington agreed to pay $1 million to more than 120 of the protesters, on top of other settlements by the D.C. government, including one for $640,000.[2] Ramsey was represented by Mark Tuohey who generated at least $1.53 million in fees for his law firm Vinson & Elkins.[3][4]
According to testimony given by Detective Paul Hustler, Ramsey himself gave the arrest order, although he has repeatedly denied this. Hustler claims he overheard Ramsey say "We're going to lock them up and teach them a lesson." [5]
Resignation from MPDC
On November 20, 2006, Ramsey announced that he would step down as police chief on January 2, 2007, the inauguration day of Washington, D.C Mayor-Elect Adrian M. Fenty. Fenty selected Cathy Lanier, a 39-year-old commander of the MPDC's Homeland Security Division, as his replacement.
Even though Ramsey's official last day was December 28, 2006, he stayed on until January 2, to deal with security during the state funeral of former president Gerald Ford.[citation needed]
Philadelphia Police Commissioner
On November 15, 2007, Philadelphia Mayor Elect Michael Nutter nominated Ramsey as Police Commissioner.[6] Ramsey came out of retirement to accept the position, and he was sworn in at the beginning of Nutter's term as Mayor on January 7, 2008.
Since Commissioner Ramsey assumed his position, the city's homicide rate has dropped 37 percent and violent crime nearly 20 percent. In the city's nine most dangerous precincts, which account for 65% of homicides and 75% of shootings, homicides are down by over 40 percent. Ramsey's tactics have included installing a network of surveillance cameras in the city's most dangerous sections, increasing the number of cops on the beat, and moving police patrols out of their squad cars and onto foot patrols or bicycle patrols.[7] In 2014 President Obama selected Commissioner Ramsey to serve as Co-Chair of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Commissioner Ramsey has also served as President of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) and the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA).
References
Jump up ^ Lengel, Allan. "Safety Stops Draw Doubts". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Nutter's Musharraf?". Attytood. 2011-12-01. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
Jump up ^ Jason Cherkis (January 17, 2003). "Boss Hogtie". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
Jump up ^ Jeff Jeffrey (May 26, 2010). "Mark Tuohey Leaves Vinson & Elkins for Brown Rudnick, Cites Retirement Policy". The Legal Times. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
Jump up ^ Cherkis, Jason (2009-11-18). "Affidavit: Ramsey Ordered Pershing Park Arrests - City Desk". Washingtoncitypaper.com. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
Jump up ^ Mayor-Elect Michael Nutter Announces New Police Commissioner on YouTube
Jump up ^ Mabrey, Vicki; Reynolds, Talesha (21 Aug 2008). "Murder and Mayhem' Decline on Streets of Philadelphia". ABC News. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
External links[edit]
Charles H. Ramsey-Philadelphia Police Department
Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Charles H. Ramsey from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum