without any notice to disperse. The final settlement resulting from the case was $13.25 million. Assistant Chief positions and matters In 2002, Chief Ramsey promoted Newsham to Assistant Chief and placed him in charge of the Office of Professional Responsibility, which includes the Internal Affairs Division, Civil Rights Division, and the Force Investigation Team. In July 2004 Newsham was placed in charge of Regional Operations Command-North. In that capacity, Newsham reported in 2003 that the department had confirmed that a class of armor-piercing handguns that Congress was seeking to ban had been tested by the department and found to be capable of penetrating police body armor. In 2007, Newsham took over as Assistant Chief of the Internal Affairs Bureau. In 2008, Newsham oversaw the issuance by police of the first handgun permits in the District of Columbia in 32 years, following the ruling by the United States Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down the District's ban on handgun ownership. The following year, in 2009, Newsham was given charge of the Investigative Services Bureau, overseeing all of the city's detectives as well as all cases. As Chief of Investigations to Chief Lanier, Newsham "was instrumental in helping Lanier reduce homicides". This oversight included a 2008 case where an 11-year-old girl reported being raped twice, but was then charged by the investigating officers with filing a false report after she confused which men raped her; Newsham inherited oversight of the case with his 2009 promotion, and his handling of the case was later criticized in the mid 2010s. In 2013, Newsham commanded the response to the Washington Navy Yard shooting.<ref name="Brasch">Ben Brasch", Police chief candidates state their cases", Fort Myers News-Press (June 17, 2016), p. A5.</ref> In 2016, Newsham oversaw the investigation of the murder of Seth Rich, noting that there was no information to support internet rumors that the death was connected to WikiLeaks involvement in the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak. Over the course of his career, Newsham was also the commanding officer supervising four presidential inaugurations and papal visits to the District by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 and Pope Francis in 2015. Newsham was a finalist for the position of chief of police in both Fort Myers, Florida, and Phoenix, Arizona. Of the 65 applicants for the position in Phoenix, Newsham was one of the three finalists, the only one not previously