Mayor Barry offers an additional explanation for the intractability of the drug problem.

Mayor Barry had called for a huge increase in the police force.

"The killings continue to run around 30 or 35 each month," Mayor Barry said in an interview.

Mayor Barry has conceded all along that there may be "some bad apples" in his administration.

He also said Mayor Barry did not use drugs with him.

But a spokeswoman for Mayor Barry said no decision had been made about his future.

Mayor Barry spent the day in court and bantered with reporters as he left the courthouse.

Mayor Barry did not take the stand before the defense rested in his drug and perjury trial.

Mayor Barry has not been getting much respect lately.

"I was on his transition team," she said of Mayor Barry.