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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 to manage that needs a everyone story. It is such a big part of reporting in washington d. C. Every ...

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...

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evidence, the statistics about hate crimes, that's 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 across the world as a hero for wrestling the gun away from corkins. >> still kind of groggy and he sa...