Comments on: D.C. police struggle over disclosure of transgender murder

By: Isabel

Isabel — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:52:52 +0000

Hey chief catty (meow) Lanier what kind of human being are u? The world is progressing to live better with each other, accept each other as we are, but not you. You must be a hundred to still live by old fazed out rules and old wives tales that are inconsequent to our daily life. LEGALLY, do you understand what this means? Let me put it in simple terms for you.
Court Higher than you
Decision OKAYED by a judge to change her name
You see where I am going with this? Either you did not read really well the document the JUDGE signed saying you may change your name or you do not RESPECT the law you yourself is supposed to enforce. Which is it? Are you intelligent and caring or a cold heart, jaded, biatch?

By: M.P.D. Disrespects yet ANOTHER Transgender woman!

M.P.D. Disrespects yet ANOTHER Transgender woman! — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:59:34 +0000

The M.P.D. does this intentionally. I was arrested in D.C. 18 months ago and they called me by my birth name the I had legally changed four years earlier. Why in God’s name would I change my name if I wanted to be called by my birth name?! The fucking police told me my new legal female name is an alias. Funny, social security, the State of Maryland, Maryland MVA, and sevaral other agencies accept it as my legal name. Only the M.P.D. are bigots that want to fuel the bigoted stereotypes that their officers and patrolmen continue to keep alive by clinging to that very outdated machismo of yesteryear.

In the case of a murder victim they have absolutely no legal right to publicly release a statement stating the victims name incorrectly. Unless she hadn’t had it changed legally. If it was changed legally that is technically libel by D.C. statutes.

Shame on you Chief Lanier. Is it Catty? Or Katty? What is that darn name?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:31:58 +0000

I bet if that Transgendered Woman was Caucasian from U Street area. They would have found that killer. Lanier I think it’s time you go!

By: brian

brian — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:18:17 +0000

If MPD really cared about solving this LGBT-related homicide case, it would have issued its press release (which sought the public’s help for information, w/ reward) to *ALL* of its SEVEN neighborhood district listservs, not just its tiny MPD-SLU listserv and its small MPD-6D listserv.

If MPD’s brass really thought this transgender-related homicide was important, Chief Lanier, herself, would have posted MPD’s press release CITYWIDE on all MPD listservs, to give it sufficient weight and attention.

FYI, just for comparison– MPD’s SLU listserv only has about 100 members, many of them MPD officers and civilian employees, plus minority activists and reporters. The MPD-6D listerv has about 600 members. Its nearby neighbor, the MPD-5D listserv has over 1,400 members. And the MPD-4D listserv, covering much of upper NE has over 1,200 members.

Neither MPD’s 5D, nor its 4D listservs published the press release for this homicide.

MPD’s chiefs really use their MPD-SLU listserv as a public relations vehicle to pretend to the LGBT community they are doing something serious to prevent and deter crimes against LGBT victims. However, Chief Lanier continues to degrade GLLU’s central unit and its SLU command, and it shows.

In this instance, what little circulation MPD did give this homicide case, was further downplayed by withholding the victim’s transgender identity and name. Whether intentional or not, it IS, at least, inept police work. The bucks stop with Chief Lanier.

I think we’re seeing a disturbing and persistent pattern of MPD and its chiefs downplaying LGBT-related crimes on their own listservs and in the wider media. If anti-LGBT crimes were to receive the media attention they deserve, then Chief Lanier (and Mayor Gray) will have to increasingly defend Lanier’s disastrous policy in degrading GLLU’s central unit and its command at SLU.

In a related development, Mayor Gray’s press release was not sent to NE’s BrooklandGLBT listserv. Again, whether intentional or not, it is not good communications with the LGBT community.

By: blue-heron

blue-heron — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:02:28 +0000

The DC Police Department must develop a Policy and Procedure on handling the Disclosure and Reporting of the Gender Identities of crime victims. Disclosure should be standardized and not at the arbitrary discretion of varying individual personalities, especially considering the controversial nature of the issue, and the prevalence of violence against trans-gendered individuals.

Hiding this information from the public only perpetuates the stygma, and the importance of disclosure to the public that a life has been taken fiills a greater societal need than than randomly pandering to individual biases within the Department and/or family of the Deceased. Transgendered people want and deserve to live, peacefully and safely so, in the City of DC.

The Decesed would have certainly wanted it to be this way.