Tuesday, April 1, 2014

I'm wondering why you want to know

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.



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