Thirteen D.C. police officers have been arrested so far this year on charges including sexual assault, drunken driving and possession of PCP, according to police and court records.
The cases show that the District's problems with arrested officers have carried over from last year, when 28 officers were charged with crimes. Twenty-two D.C. officers were arrested in 2002. The totals are far out of proportion to those of police departments in the D.C. suburbs and other big cities.
Here in San Francisco, officers are rarely arrested. When it happens, it's usually when they are off duty and drunk, and decide to beat up civilians on the street and steal their fast food. Details of D.C.'s problem are here from The Washington Post.