When news was highly profitable, cops reporters spent much of their time in the press rooms at police stations and the local sheriff's offices, digging through arrest reports, scrolling over 911 call logs and chatting up detectives in the name of open government.
"We can't let the current state of affairs (meaning hostilities between the press and cops) define the way we cover those issues," he said.
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