Incoming D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has listened to advice of the country’s top crime fighters and spent sleepless nights sifting through suggestions from the rank-and-file to figure out how to boost morale, protect the nation’s capital and prevent crime without resorting to costly crime emergencies.

The goals, she admits, are not new.

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