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Crime and Youth Prevention
    • Authored funds for crime cameras outside 12 Metro Stations including U Street and Columbia Heights.
    • Established the Citywide Coordinating Council on Youth Violence Prevention in 2008. Authored $500,000 in 2008 and $1 million in both 2009 and 2010 to build a citywide network of community based organizations fighting gang violence.
    • Authored $125,000 in fiscal year 2008 for a local and national scan of gang prevention and intervention best practices and to propose recommendations for legislative action to adopt a citywide gang prevention and intervention strategy.   The Blue Print was released in June, 2009.

           Police
    • Created and funded ABRA’S Reimbursable Police Officer Subsidy Program—to bring more police to bars at late night—again fully funded in FY10 for $1 million.
    • Led the effort in Adams Morgan for BID to hire reimbursable police officers. Authored funding for a 50% reduction in MPD costs to ensure police are available for late night bar closings.
    • Led the effort to consolidate all of Ward One into a single police district (3D). Previously it had been split in half at Harvard between 3D and 4D (the latter headquartered on the 6000 block of Georgia Avenue).
    • Led the effort to fund 100 more police officers in FY 07.
    • Led the effort with Chief Ramsey to open and fund the police substation at 750 Park Road which now has nearly 100 officers stationed there. There are but 4 such substations in DC.
    • Worked with MPD Chief Ramsey to establish the Latino Task Force at 18th and Columbia.

 

     Public Safety and Community
    • Worked with neighbors and ANC to block the opening of an offender halfway house in Adams Morgan across the street from an elementary school.
    • Led effort to close nightclubs with a track record of violence (such as Club U, Between Friends, Keelys).
    • Ensured that Ward One support its fair share of convicted felon halfway houses’ beds by reducing their number from 62 to 13 on Park Road. Prior to this effort, Ward One was one of only three wards that had such facilities.
    • Helped organize Orange Hat patrols and revitalized volunteer police reserve programs.
    • Introduced legislation that increased mandatory training of security guards from zero to forty hours, require yearly refresher training, prevent security companies from putting an officer on a post before an FBI background check, and provide whistle-blower protections for officers who report unsafe conditions.
          Alcohol Policy
    • Barred applicants with as little as 10% ownership from getting a liquor license if they owe any amount to the District Government.
    • Authored legislation that authorized the MPD Chief to immediately and summarily revoke, suspend or restrict a license to sell alcoholic beverages, pending a formal hearing of the ABC board, when there are reasonable grounds to conclude the operations of the licensee present an imminent danger to the health and safety of the public.
    • Funded new ABC inspectors and urged the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to be more aggressive in revoking licenses held by clubs with repeat violence.
    • Authored legislation to impose tougher penalties on businesses that sell alcohol to minors.
    • Funded four new liquor-establishment inspectors and urged the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to be more aggressive in revoking licenses held by clubs with repeat violence. 
     Public Safety and Community
    • Worked with neighbors and ANC to block the opening of an offender halfway house in Adams Morgan across the street from an elementary school.
    • Led effort to close nightclubs with a track record of violence (such as Club U, Between Friends, Keelys).
    • Ensured that Ward One support its fair share of convicted felon halfway houses’ beds by reducing their number from 62 to 13 on Park Road. Prior to this effort, Ward One was one of only three wards that had such facilities.
    • Helped organize Orange Hat patrols and revitalized volunteer police reserve programs.
    • Introduced legislation that increased mandatory training of security guards from zero to forty hours, require yearly refresher training, prevent security companies from putting an officer on a post before an FBI background check, and provide whistle-blower protections for officers who report unsafe conditions.

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