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Handled and said race played no role in the incident. >> what would the police reaction and response been the same had this been a white student who brought that same exact device into the school? >> our reaction -- you've seen the image. our reaction would have been the same either way. that's a suspicious device. we live in an age where you can't take things like that to school. we've seen it across our country. we have to err on the side of caution. >> joining me now is irving police chief larry boyd. chief boyd, given a little bit of time to process all this, i imagine you're feeling amoun...

Interrogation at the moment. >> chief boyd said he was looking into the matter. >> is that your policies when someone is detained they're not permitted to call their attorney or their parent? >> as stated earlier any high profile situation we'll follow up -- i don't have the answer specifically to your question as to whether he was immediately allowed to call his father or not. >> boyd has not apologized for the way ahmed's arrest was handled and said race played no role in the incident. >> what would the police reaction and response been the same had this been a white student who brought that...

>> yes. >> what did they say? >> they told me no you can't call your parents. you're in the middle of an interrogation at the moment. >> chief boyd said he was looking into the matter. >> is that your policies when someone is detained they're not permitted to call their attorney or their parent? >> as stated earlier any high profile situation we'll follow up -- i don't have the answer specifically to your question as to whether he was immediately allowed to call his father or not. >> boyd has not apologized for the way ahmed's arrest was handled and said race played no role in the incident. >>...

Chief boyd protects 43 miles of water front. let me ask you this central question now, we focus so much attention on this issue right after 9/11, are we safer now than then? >> i would say we are safer now than we were then, but we have still got a long way to go. >> when it comes to the issue here in washington, that the idea of somebody with a soccer ball sized amount of a highly enriched uranium or plutonium would come in and wreak havoc can come into a city large or small, considering the training you have, the technology you have, where are you? >> we have got to have better capabilities ...