Amid a 43% increase in murders, safety is disintegrating in Washington, D.C., while innocent residents and police officers are frequently on the receiving end of the violence.

That’s why the DC Police Union is fighting back and declaring it has “no confidence” in Police Chief Cathy Lanier, according to a news release from the union.

Union leaders asked 1,150 of their members, “Do you have confidence that Chief Cathy Lanier is able to properly manage the resources of the Metropolitan Police Department and keep the citizens safe?”

Of those, 1,122 — or 97.5% — answered NO, according to the survey.

According to the union, “Failure to negotiate contracts in good faith, no cost of living increases, unreasonable scheduling disruptions, cancelled and banned vacation time, bad faith bargaining, heavy handed and capricious discipline, disingenuous reporting of statistics and data, impotent and ineffective policing strategies, disbanding of the most effective units, gimmicky deployment, toxic management, a skyrocketing attrition rate, and an inability to fundamentally keep our neighborhoods, our citizens and our officers safe have all contributed to the fact that our members have lost confidence in the leadership of the Chief.

“This ‘No Confidence’ vote is a symbolic gesture of our member’s long-building desire for a new direction in policing in the District.”

Another poll sponsored by the union finds crime and drugs are the top two concerns among residents.

The union poll asked residents, “On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not concerned and 10 being highly concerned, how concerned are you about crime in DC?”\

According to the union, 49% of respondents answered “10.”

“I realize that officers don’t like their schedules disrupted and I try to minimize it, but when we have violent crime we have to make the sacrifices that we all swore we would make when we took this job,” Lanier said in a statement over the weekend.

Tension in the city is exacerbated by activists who oppose police.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a new anti-crime initiative, only to be shouted down and heckled by “Black Lives Matter” activists.

“I will not be shouted down or scared away when it comes to the safety of the District of Columbia,” Bowser told the audience over the chants.

“I don’t come across any citizen of this city, any Washingtonian, that says it’s OK to commit murder,” she says. “I don’t come across anybody that says repeat violent offenders should have access to guns.”

The mayor’s actions come after the city has been hit by 103 killings so far this year, a 43% increase over the same point last year. But the activists attacked her motives and sincerity.

“I think she doesn’t really care. From the beginning, the mayor has been completely aloof from the broader conversation that the Black Lives Matter movement is driving,” according to protest organizer Eugene Puryear. “At the end of the day, tougher penalties and more cops, which have only been proven to have a negative effect, are something that she’s going to continue to support.”