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Kathleen Kingsbury: Iâm Katie Kingsbury, editorial page editor at The Times. We have a lot of questions for you and not very much time. So brevity will be appreciated throughout this call. I wanted to start, though, by just asking why you want this job. Why are you the best candidate in the field?
Well, I think it goes back to several years ago. I recall sitting in the room with a group of commanders from the transit police. And a man named Jack Maple â many of you probably donât know his name â he talked about âHow do we turn around crime in this city?â It was a different city â 2,000 homicides a year, 98,000 robberies and an equivalent amount of felonious assault. And all the commanders around the table looked at each other and said the cityâs always going to have 2,000 homicides a year.