Transgender Activists Wait For MPD Response After Bias AllegationsBy: Armando Trull // February 29, 2012
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Transgender activists are still waiting to hear whether MPD is going to look into their claims that police officers have a bias against transgender people.
The U.S. Justice Department is mediating allegations that D.C.'s police department is violating the civil rights of transgendered people.
The first meeting between Justice Department investigators and transgendered activists took place this past October, according to Jason Terry with the D.C. Trans Coalition. (The Justice Department declined to be interviewed for this story.) At that meeting, gay activists outlined their bias allegations against the Metropolitan police department. Those allegations include low closure rates of crimes against transgendered victims and more.
"Incredibly frightening instances of police violence against trans people," says Terry. "Totally uncalled for, totally unacceptable."
