Isaac Fulwood

CTL-E-6771 · Person · other · 1940–2017

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Isaac 'Ike' Fulwood Jr. (April 28, 1940 – September 1, 2017) was chief of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department from July 1989 to September 1992. A native Washingtonian raised on Capitol Hill and educated at Eastern High School, Fulwood joined the MPD in 1964, rose through the patrol districts to deputy chief, and by 1986 was assistant chief in charge of field operations. He succeeded Chief Maurice T. Turner Jr. in 1989. Fulwood took command at the height of the crack epidemic, with the District recording record homicides. Five months into his tenure, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested on federal drug charges; in 1991 the Mount Pleasant riot was the most serious civil disturbance in the city since 1968. The department's official history credits Fulwood with a 'cool steady hand,' noting that Washington saw no violence after the 1992 Rodney King verdicts that ignited unrest in other cities. Fulwood retired in 1992, immediately took charge of Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly's youth initiative, and was later appointed by President George W. Bush as a commissioner of the United States Parole Commission, which he went on to chair. He died on September 1, 2017 — the same calendar date, twenty-five years after his retirement era, remembered by Congress in a 2017 resolution honoring his life.

Notes

Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged police chiefs packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/police/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Police leadership — Chief, Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department (1989–1992) · Photo slot: HELD — No photograph of Fulwood exists on Wikimedia Commons; every 'Isaac F…' hit is Isaac Funk of Staten Island. Held rather than substitute a wrong likeness.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Isaac Fulwood' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Fulwood
• mpdc.dc.gov — https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/isaac-fulwood-jr

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