If You're Late, You're Dead

Fun Q and A with Kerry Burke, a murder and mayhem reporter for the Daily News:

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When you arrive at a crime scene, what's generally happening? How do you go about reporting?

Very often it's absolute chaos. But, you know, I've been doing this for a while, and I read scenes to figure out what's happening when the world's gone mad. I realize, okay, these detectives are the actual case detectives and those detectives aren't. Okay, that's family. Okay, the shots had to have come from over there. You figure out what happened just by looking at the lay of the land and everybody involved.

I see the pack of reporters, and I don't follow the pack. I try to go off in a different direction. I keep an eye…