D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to stop cars this weekend in a Northeast Washington neighborhood inundated by gun violence, saying it will help keep criminals out of the area. … ‘I knew eventually we’d be a police state,’ said Wilhelmina Lawson, who has lived in the neighborhood for 20 years. ‘They don’t talk to us, they’re not community minded.’ One of Lanier’s plans, the Safe Homes initiative, has yet to get off the ground because of a community backlash. The plan, announced by Lanier and Fenty at a news conference in March, called for police to go door-to-door in crime-ridden areas and ask residents whether they could go inside and search for guns. – Washington Post