As World Pride flows straight into the military parade, DC officials say they’re ready for anything

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials in the nation’s capital generally express full confidence in their ability to handle large, complicated events and huge crowds. As Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith recently put it, “We are really the experts in this space when it comes to crowd management.”

That expertise will be publicly put to the test over the next eight days.

The District of Columbia is playing host to massive events on back-to-back weekends. Two wildly divergent...