A public policy organization here wrote a crucial report about homicides in
Oakland. I have it, have interviewed the authors about it, even
though they were pretty hesitant about doing the interview. Anyway,
the report, or analysis, is a primary tool for a big violence
prevention approach the city is taking that I am writing a story
about. I think the report is amazing and fascinating and was working
on my piece and praising it and wanted to write a sentence
about how long they had worked on it, but realized I didn't have that
info. That's all. So I emailed one of the authors with the question, How long did it take you to put that report together? She responded with a question of her own:
I'm wondering why you want to know.
It's like
these people are on drugs they're so paranoid. As if my job ain't hard enough. Now I'm kind of wondering why I wanted to know.
