It's official. Pamela A. Smith is D.C.'s chief of police. The D.C. Council unanimously confirmed Smith Tuesday, nearly four months after Mayor Muriel Bowser announced her nomination.
Mere hours after Acting D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith was grilled on the rampant violence in the District, officials say five people have been shot in Northeast, and two of them are dead.
The D.C. Council Public Safety and Judiciary Committee held its first roundtable on the mayor’s nominee for D.C.’s top cop Wednesday, and the conversations were intense and charged.