2006 – Lanier becomes chief
Metropolitan Police Department Commander Cathy Lanier speaks during a news conference in Washington, Monday, Nov. 20, 2006, where it was announced she was will replace outgoing police Chief Charles H. Ramsey as police chief. (AP Photo/ Haraz N. Ghanbari)
AP Photo/ Haraz N. Ghanbari
2006 – Lanier as incoming chief at Tots-for-Tots
Outgoing Washington Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, left, sits with incoming Washington police Chief Cathy Lanier, right, before giving out presents to school children to kickoff the annual U.S. Marines Toys-for-Tots drive, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006 at Union Station in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
2007 – The court fight over D.C.’s gun ban
Chief of Police Cathy Lanier, left, and D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announce that the city will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a federal appeals court panel ruling overturning a 30-year law banning handguns in private homes, at a news conference in Washington on Monday, July 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
2008 – Preparing for the inauguration of Barack Obama
Police Chief Cathy Lanier speaks about plans for the presidential inauguration in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
2009 – Shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier wipes her forehead after talking with the media near the U.S. Holocaust Museum after a shooting at the museum in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
2009 – Fatal Red Line crash
D.C. Chief Cathy Lanier finishes a tour of the accident site in Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2009, where two Metro trains collided Monday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
2010 – Shooting of 10 in D.C.
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, left, Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham, and Police Chief Cathy Lanier speak about the shooting of 10 people, of whom four died, in Washington, on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. At right is William Cheek, grandfather of one of the victims. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
2010 – Community-based policing
Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier, left, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, speaks during a news conference on the launching of a series of community-based initiatives in conjunction with National Night Out, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
2010 – Fewer officers, more retiring
In this Nov. 30, 2010 file photo, Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. A lack of funding to hire new officers and a projected increase in attrition has Washington police leadership concerned about the size of the force in the coming years. Lanier told The Associated Press in 2010 that the department has about 200 fewer sworn officers than it did less than two years, budget problems have stalled recruiting and officers who joined the force during a hiring surge about 25 years ago are preparing to retire en masse. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File
2011 – Fiery postal packages
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, right, and Chief of Police Cathy Lanier, talk with the media near a postal sorting facility in Washington, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. A package ignited at the facility, a day after fiery packages sent to Maryland’s governor and transportation secretary burned the fingers of workers who opened them. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
2011 – Terror concerns
District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray, left, Police Chief Cathy Lanier, and James McJunkin, assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office of the FBI, speak to the media about an unconfirmed terror threat to the city, in Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. Law enforcement officials in say they are working to corroborate a terrorism threat against the city after government officials said they were investigating a detailed al-Qaida car bomb plot aimed at bridges or tunnels in New York or Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
2012 – Occupy DC
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the McPherson Square campsite as part of the ongoing Occupy DC protest. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
2012 – A dramatic drop in homicides
This Aug. 15, 2012 file photo shows Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier meeting with reporters in Washington. Washington’s murder rate was approaching nearly 500 slayings a year in the early 1990s, the annual rate has gradually declined to the point that the city is now on the verge of a once-unthinkable milestone. The number of 2012 killings in the District of Columbia stands at 78 and is on pace to finish lower than 100 for the first time since 1963, police records show. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File
2013 – Navy Yard shooting
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier briefs reporters on the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Standing to the right of Lanier is District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray. At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
AP Photo/Susan Walsh
2013 – D.C. officers arrested
In this Oct. 3, 2013 file photo, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Police officials in the nation’s capital have been facing recent questions about headline-making arrests — not of hardened street criminals but of their own officers. In a single month, one District of Columbia police officer was accused of taking seminude pictures of a 15-year-old runaway and another was charged with running a prostitution operation involving teenage girls. A third was indicted on an attempted murder charge, accused of striking his wife in the head with a light fixture. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
AP Photo/Molly Riley, File
2013 – Chase and shooting outside the Capitol
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan, second from left, Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier, third from left, and U.S. Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine, second from right, walk to address the media regarding a police chase and shooting, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase that ended in gunfire outside the Capitol, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
AP Photo/Molly Riley
2014 – The search for Relisha Rudd
Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier leaves after speaking during a media availability about a body found in Kenilworth Park, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Washington. Police have been searching the park in Northeast Washington since last week for clues in the case of 8-year-old Relisha Rudd, last seen in the company of Kahlil Tatum, a janitor at the homeless shelter where she lived with her mother and brothers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
2015 – Honored at Ellis Island
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier speaks at the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations’ 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor awards ceremony on Ellis Island, Saturday, May 9, 2015. NECO honored Lanier as one of 101 recipients, including New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera, journalist Meredith Vieira, and 11 members of the U.S. military. NECO’s mission is to honor and preserve the diversity of the American people and to foster tolerance, respect and understanding among religious and ethnic groups. (Photo by Diane Bondareff/Invision for NECO/AP Images)
Photo by Diane Bondareff/Invision for NECO/AP Images
2015 – Savopoulos family killed
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, left, with Mayor Muriel Bowser, talks to reporters about a fire at a home in Northwest Washington, Thursday, May 14, 2015, where four people were found dead after firefighters entered a home in an upscale Washington neighborhood. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
2015 – Raised concerns and false alarms
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier speaks during a news conference in Washington, Thursday, July 2, 2015, about the Navy Yard in Washington. Investigators found no evidence of a shooting after the Washington Navy Yard went on lockdown Thursday because someone reported shots fired in the same building where a gunman killed 12 workers in a rampage two years ago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
2016 – Announces departure for NFL
Chief Cathy Lanier smiles at left as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, in Washington. Lanier is stepping down to become head of security for the National Football League. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
2016 – Lanier’s next challenge
Chief Cathy Lanier arrives for a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016 in Washington. Lanier is stepping down to become head of security for the National Football League. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Sept. 5 – Nats honor Lanier
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier, right, shakes hands with Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer (31) after she handed him the game ball before the Nationals’ baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
AP Photo/Nick Wass
2016 – Her future with football
The NFL’s new head of security Cathy Lanier watches the teams warm up before an NFL football game between the Washington Redskins and the Pittsburgh Steelers in Landover, Md., Monday, Sept. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
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WASHINGTON D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier talks with WTOP’s Bruce Alan about her tenure as the District’s top cop and the next chapter in her career.
