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Little bit of politics. Being a Police Officer is what i have done my whole adult life. 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. And 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 intervie...

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...

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 questio...

To the 200 range declined over about a tenure period and this is part of the crack cocaine epidemic. The Violence Associated with crack cocaine markets, we had 200 markets in the city when shootings would happen and they would be drivebys and six or seven people would be killed in a single incident. As it started to weigh in, if you look at drug patterns, drugs tend to spike in popularity and they remain there about 15 or 16 years. Then they go down. So the epidemic is no more. But its nowhere near what used to be. With the absence of that driving the violence, we got stuck there for a long ti...

Things and we love them for it. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Have a great weekend. Hardball starts right now. Bad call, this is hardball. Good evening, this is Chris Matthews in washington. Let me start tonight with this plague of violence in the nfl. And the deepening scandal involving its commissioner, tmz reporting late today that one of the leagues biggest star, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has been indicted for child abuse. It comes on the heels of this bombshell report on nfl commissioner Roger Goodell. According to espn, Baltimore Ravens running back ray rice t...