Chief Lanier spoke on a panel directly after a critical discussion about policing in Southwest.

Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier spent some time chatting with Bruce DePuyt on NewsTalk this morning, and while there was discussion regarding yesterday’s U Street shooting and several other hot topics, a good chunk of the conversation centered around Lanier’s future under a Vince Gray administration. Lanier took a rather detached stance on the issue.

You know, watching everyone in D.C. suddenly transform into that dude from Lie To Me who is able to magically read facial expressions and then apply said skills to judge the mannerisms which Michelle Rhee exhibited during yesterday’s press conference with Vince Gray is fascinating and all — but Rhee’s not the only important government official who might herself out of a job under the new Gray administration. What about Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier?

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Adrian Fenty announced Wednesday that they have doubled the reward money, to $50,000, for anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the two gunmen who shot and killed 17-year-old Kenyetta Nicholson-Stanley on Oct. 8. Nicholson-Stanley was shot while standing in a playground in the 500 block of Edgewood Street NE, and was merely a bystander. The suspects are believed to have been targeting a…

An amendment attached to the D.C. House Voting Rights Act that would gut the District’s gun laws has remained a point of heated debate in recent weeks, and today Police Chief Cathy Lanier heads to the Hill to testify on the dangers it would pose to the city. She is scheduled to join a number of security officials in a hearing titled, “Disaster Capacity in the National Capital Region: Experiences, Capabilities, and Weaknesses,” being…

Charles Ramsey can’t be too jealous of his former protégé and now D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier. After all, he’s got good numbers; she doesn’t. In his first year as Philadelphia’s Police Commissioner, the District’s former top cop saw a 15 percent decline in homicides, handing Mayor Michael Nutter a substantial victory in his pledge to reduce citywide crime. Lanier, on the other hand, had to deal with a second straight year of increases in…

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced this afternoon that five men have been arrested for the killing of 13-year-old Alonzo Robinson and shooting of four other people in Trinidad last July. The shooting spree was one of the worst incidents in a wave of increased violence in Trinidad that lead police to establish controversial checkpoints in the area. Police say the five men, all from the Kenilworth-Parkside area, sprayed gunfire in the neighborhood in an…

Residents watch the police checkpoint in D.C.’s Trinidad neighborhood on Saturday, June 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) We balked at the initial news that the Metropolitan Police Department planned to throw up barriers and checkpoints in certain D.C. neighborhoods experiencing excessive violent crime. Later, when we learned the details of the first case, the week-long checkpoint that was established in Trinidad, the MPD’s plan appeared to be both constitutionally dubious and potentially not…

WTOP’s Mark Segraves has the scoop that interim D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles has advised Police Chief Cathy Lanier that she may legally fire the 17 officers (though Segraves now says it was 20 officers — that’s first time we’ve seen that number) she was forced to rehire. Lanier has reportedly already begun the process of terminating the officers again, who were originally fired for violations ranging from lying to get time off to posting…

A while back, Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced she wanted to start a book club of sorts, and now, the date of the book club discussion has been finalized. On Thursday, May 1, at a location yet to be determined, the Chief will host a public discussion of pop-sociology books The Tipping Point and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Sadly, the invitation doesn’t make it seem like the Chief necessarily wants to keep the book…