{"id":1920140,"date":"2023-04-27T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-police-chief-retires-after-two-years-of-leading-force-with-homicides-on-record-pace\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:33:04","slug":"dc-police-chief-retires-after-two-years-of-leading-force-with-homicides-on-record-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-police-chief-retires-after-two-years-of-leading-force-with-homicides-on-record-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Police Chief Retires After Two Years of Leading Force With Homicides on Record Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-police-chief-retires-after-two-years-of-leading-force-with-homicides-on-record-pace%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee III Retires to Join FBI<\/h2>\n<p>After 33 years of service with the department, D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III is retiring to become an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rush-to-judgement-three-crucial-questions-remain-unanswered-about-capitol-siege\/\" title=\"Rush to judgement? Three crucial questions remain unanswered about Capitol siege\">assistant director<\/a> at the FBI. His last day on the force will be June 3, 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>Congratulations and Thanks from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser<\/h3>\n<p>D.C. Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/mayor.dc.gov\/release\/statement-mayor-bowser-retirement-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">chief<\/a>-contee&#8221;>Muriel Bowser<\/a> congratulated Chief Contee on his retirement and thanked him for his service to DC. She praised him for leading MPD with passion and purpose and pushing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">criminal justice system<\/a> to do more and be better.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges During Contee&#8217;s Tenure<\/h3>\n<p>Contee was sworn in as chief at the start of January 2021, just after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. During his first year as chief, homicides rose nearly 15%. While they fell slightly in 2022, D.C. is on track this year to have the most homicides in nearly two decades, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/chief-robert-contee-leaving-dc-police-department-source\/3336830\/\">NBC Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/law-firm-claims-wisconsin-school-district-violated-state-law-by-providing-students-with-sexually-explicit-books\/\" title=\"Law Firm Claims Wisconsin School District Violated State Law By Providing Students With \u2018Sexually Explicit\u2019 Books\">increasingly left<\/a> the department under Contee. When he first became chief, the agency had 3,800 sworn officers, but it fell to 3,362 by April 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>Contee&#8217;s Future at the FBI<\/h3>\n<p>Contee is expected to work at the FBI headquarters in D.C. as an assistant director. We wish him all the best in his new role!<\/p>\n<p><em>Madeleine Hubbard is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impossible-to-fact-check-in-real-time-misleading-biden-presser-diverges-from-reality-on-the-ground\/\" title=\"Impossible To Fact Check \u2018In Real Time\u2019: Misleading Biden Presser Diverges From Reality On The Ground\">international correspondent<\/a> for Just the News. Follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadeleineHubb\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madeleinehubb\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III is retiring after 33 years with the department to become an assistant director at the FBI. His last day on the force will be June 3, he said Wednesday.\u00a0 &#8220;I want to congratulate Chief Contee on his retirement and thank him for his service to DC \u2014 for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1920141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5772,4649,4824,8540,20270,3967,4752,10586],"class_list":["post-1920140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-chief","tag-force","tag-homicides","tag-leading","tag-pace","tag-police","tag-record","tag-retires"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}