One year after being named the District of Columbia’s top law enforcer, Police Chief Cathy Lanier has had to answer some hard questions about the rise in violent crime and homicides.

As she sat before the D.C. Council last week, D.C. Council Member Phil Mendelson pointed out that New York City was on track to have the fewest homicides in more than 40 years, while the nation’s capital has already suffered more murders than it did all of last year, and asked her: What was the District doing wrong?