* During the riots, the D.C. Police Department asked us for permission to look through our file of pictures (published and unpublished) for photographs where looters could be identified. We had published 180 pictures during the riot’s first week, and taken thousands more. We declined, of course, pointing out we were in the news-gathering game, not the law enforcement business. We explained how the photographers’ lives might be endangered, and the newsgathering process sabotaged, but the government threatened us with subpoenas. With my Washington Star colleague, Newbold Noyes, I met with Justice Department officials and got them to agree to a “compromise.” Each morning, we sent them over an 8-by-8-inch print of whatever photo had appeared in the paper.