When the mayor of Washington, D.C., Ethan Baker, needs to hire a new police chief, his young deputy mayor, Mary Ann Mitchell, champions Mannion for the job, hoping the outsider can clean up the streets of her home town. Washington, D.C., has a vast crime problem and its local police department is disgruntled and lazy. Mannion faces conflict with his deputy chief Joe Noland, who tries to undermine him at every turn. Although The District is a late-night adult drama, it is refreshingly clean. So far, it has not contained the violent content and graphic images rampant on other police dramas.
Violence tends to be implied or heard off screen.
Shootings and an instance of domestic violence have all been portrayed off camera. Early episodes have also not contained any offensive sexual content. Murder Dilbert Doc Dr. Quinn, Med.