MPD Fifth District and Citizens' Advisory Council Awards Dinner

Last night I attended the annual awards dinner sponsored by the Metropolitan Police Department and the Fifth District Citizens' Advisory Council (CAC).

This year's theme was "Remembering the Future" and the emcee was Nikole Killion, an anchor for ABC 7/NewsChannel 8.

All of the local dignitaries attended, including City Councilmember Vincent Orange, Police Chief Charles Ramsey, Commander Jennifer Greene, and various ANCs (Marshall Phillips and Robert Brannum sat at the head table).

Meanwhile, ANC candidates, including John Salatti mingled in the crowd before the ceremony began and during dinner. I missed the photo-of-the-night, the moment when Brannum and Salatti were consulting with each other over a big roll of raffle tickets on how each might distribute the tickets to the crowd.

Jefferey Taylor gave the keynote address. He officially became the United States Attorney (lead federal prosecuting attorney for the district) for the District of Columbia only two weeks ago. Although I work for the Department of Justice, I had not heard of this appointment until last night. Officer of the Year is Arthur Hopper, and Rookie of the Year, Officer Alexander Mac Bean, received a particularly warm applause.

Meanwhile, I sat at the same table as Salatti, Earth Isaac (head of the Eckington Civic Association), and Tom Usselman, the corresponding secretary for the Fifth District CAC.


Tom is throwing a big Halloween party at his home-- the Nightmare on First Street . . . A Halloween Bash Part IV --on Saturday October 28th. E-mail Tom at Tom@isfamily.com to get on the Evite.