The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) will force 12 of its senior police officers to quit their jobs on April 30 due to a controversial law the Democrat-controlled district passed in 2022 following the 2020 race riots, D.C. supervisory public affairs specialist Thomas Lynch announced.
MPD has lost more than 1,400 officers since the district passed the legislation in 2022, the D.C. Police Union said. Washington, DC’s, council first enacted the law in 2020 as emergency legislation following George Floyd’s death.
MPD will not renew the 12 senior officers’ contracts due to the law, which “prohibits the department from appointing police officers who have any serious misconduct in their background,” WTOP News reported. Senior officers are members who retired from MPD, but returned to their posts to
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