A little bit of the politics. Being a Police Officer is what i have been doing my whole life. Being a police chief is not that different. The toughest part was dealing with the press. How many officers do you have . Why was the press tough or difficult . It is washington, d. C. So the press is different. Everything is national news. Some of the stuff seem to go viral in the press. Sometimes it is puzzling why the things the press focuses on are of such interest and for so long. But learning how to manage that needs a everyone story. It is such a big part of reporting in washington d. C. Every day, we deal with a lot. What are your own personal rules with dealing with an interview situation . One thing i have learned is that in Law Enforcement, when we get asked questions, we always say, no comment. We cannot talk about that. My rule of thumb is i always try to tell you what i can tell you. There is always something i can tell you. If i cannot comment on for example, there was a case wh
It will be passed on for this and this. I try to find what it is i can tell the press because they have a got a job to do. That is my rule of thumb. I have a piece of people paper here. I go back to 1993. Were you on the force . I was. There were 454 murders in the district of columbia. Last year, 2012, there were 88. What happened . A lot of things have happened. The initial decline of the 500 down to the 200 range, that decline over a 10year period was rolling down on the cocaine epidemic. That was a 20year run of sheer hell. The violence, we had 200 open air markets in the city. There would be drive bys and six or seven people would be shot and killed in a single incident. As the crack cocaine epidemic started to wane, we went down to the 200 range and we stayed there for a time. Why did it wane . Drugs tend to spike in popularity and remain there and run 20year cycles. There are still people who use cocaine and crack cocaine. It is nowhere near where it used to be. With the absence
Being a police chief is not that much different. How many officers do you have . Why is the press difficult . It is washington d. C. Everything is national news. Some of the Little Things go viral in the press. It is sometimes puzzling why those things are of such interest and for so long. It is how to manage that constant beast, that Everybody Needs a story. It is such a big part of reporting in washington d. C. Every day, we do with a lot. What are your own personal rules with dealing with an interview situation . One thing i have learned is that in Law Enforcement, when we get asked questions, we always say, no comment. We cannot talk about that. My rule of thumb is i always try to tell you what i can tell you. There is always something i can tell you. If i cannot comment on for example, there was a case where there was an allegation and an officer made a threat regarding the first lady. Clearly, there is an investigation going on. What i can do is talk about, here is the process. W
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