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The District’s police department is dedicating five officers solely to street traffic enforcement, a new initiative responding to record-high fatalities on city streets, officials said Tuesday. Rick Birt, director of the city’s Highway Safety Office, said that with the right training and policies, “we can do traffic enforcement equitably.” He added that “the vast majority of residents want safe streets. … They want people to be out there changing behavior.”

A new grant for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety is hoping to address trends associated with distracted driving. Their Office of Traffic Safety says distracted driving contributes to an average of nearly 30 deaths and 150 life-changing injuries a year across the state.