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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 ...

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. Tha...

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 ...

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evidence, the statistics about hate crimes, thats very much demonstrated not to be the case. >> reporter: corkins shuffled into court in a plastic jumpsuit ill at ease and staring repeatedly out into the gallery at a crowd of reporters. he faces a federal charge of interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition and a d.c. charge of assault with intent to kill while armed. in the meantime shooting victim leonardo johnson is recovering in the hospital. perkins says he is hailed ac...

details about the prime suspect. thanks for joining tonight. im shawn yancy. >> im brian bolter in the newsroom with our top story tonight. it has almost everybody in our area talking and now the fbi as shawn mentioned is involved. fox 5s matt ackland is downstairs working that part of the story. youve been talking to the fbi. where are they right now with the investigation? >> theyre not going anywhere in aruba. so the aruban authorities contacted the fbi and asked them to get involve...

him to washington. good evening, everyone. im brian bolter. >> and im shawn yancy. it is a story that struck a nerve with our viewers in the d.c. region and beyond, racist and hateful messages posted on the facebook page of a local business that caters to women of color. the owner says shes received an overwhelming amount of support in the midst of this harassment. will thomas starts us off tonight with a story you saw first on fox 5. will? >> this has been our top viewed story on ww...

doing away with strategies that amount to gimmick type efforts to increase visibility. police union chief kristopher baumann said gray was talking about the all hands on deck initiative, a program that continues even though it was ruled illegal in 2009 by an ash tore costing the city million -- arbitor costing the city millions. >> theyre trying to justify to the taxpayers why is it youre going to have to spend tens of millions in back pay because you couldnt follow the law to police o...

us off. >> this investigation involves nine students in the teachers classroom. police believe they were hit, punched and choked in front of other students. susan burke, a teacher at greencastle elementary school in silver spring was arrested at her home in laurel around 9:00 tuesday morning. police say on january 7th officers got a report of child abuse of a minor. the male student said he had been physically assaulted on numerous occasions by his 1st grade teacher. initial investigat...