Julia Cowley

You don't have to have certain things.

Now, it would be when you're trying to decide, OK, how is it going to be prosecuted?

Now, that's different.

That's a different decision.

And that's when we start looking at, did they cross state lines?

Do we have federal jurisdiction?

That kind of stuff.

But whatever crime it is, it was always my policy.

And I think it remains the same when my predecessor took over.

in our area, if local law enforcement requested anything, they would get it from us.

No, it was not my typical experience.

Well, I will say when I first joined the FBI, there was tension because I was in the Boston division and...

A lot of it had to do with James Whitey Bulger and that investigation.

And there was corruption in the Boston FBI, as well as in the Massachusetts State Police and locals.

I mean, there was just a lot of corruption.

There were a lot of bad feelings.

And a lot of that, everything that had occurred had happened so many years before I ever joined the FBI.

But when I did join, there was definitely tension and I was used to that.

And so there could be disagreements, distrust.

But I will tell you, and I think when you hear many FBI agents talk about their relationships with the locals, when I had opportunities to work with them, I always had a very good experience.