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Behind the scenes of "Homicide 37"

By Mark Obbie

Brendan McCarthy, the New Orleans Times-Picayune cops reporter who wrote the "Homicide 37" series that I raved about, gives some peeks behind the scenes of the project in this Q&A with CJR's Katia Bachko. On the second day of shadowing a pair of detectives -- in a deal he struck with New Orleans P.D. when he was asked to cover a story on improving crime stats -- his detectives got the call for a routine murder. They would work it for 40 straight hours, with McCarthy by their side. He says:And don't assume that this sort of project is possible only with vast amounts of time and space. When asked how much time his editors gave him for the project, McCarthy said, "My editor freed me up for a little over a week."

Full post as published by Lawbeat on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).