D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has proposed the city hire 120 officers next year, budget documents show, but that won’t likely be enough to prevent the force from shrinking to a size Police Chief Cathy Lanier has called problematic. “Once we go below 3,800, we’re going to have trouble,” Lanier recently testified during a D.C. Council hearing.

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