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
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