I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

Just because the news media gives disproportionate attention to one crime over others does not mean the police do the same.

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

I've read a lot of court cases and media accounts about how innocent people wind up getting shot by police officers, and you'll take my word for it that none of them had anything to do with beetle collectors. A lot of it has to do with misinformation from people who don't know what they're talking about, who tell police things, and then the police accept it and then view a situation through the eyes of a person who didn't know what they were talking about.

The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.