CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
Avery sauntered into the A1 police department at just past ten in the evening. The first-floor receptionist was dealing with an officer and a p********e. Throughout the rest of the office, plainclothes officers booked drunken college students and took statements. A fight broke out in the back and it took three cops to subdue a tremendous white man.
Police jobs weren’t like normal jobs.
The majority of officers didn’t just come in at eight or nine and leave at five everyday. Similarly, weekends were almost never free unless an employee had seniority or the entire department was on a revolving schedule. In the A1, everyone worked in shifts—five-day shifts that could be from Wednesday to Sunday, and if someone was on a case, they could work all night, every night, and we
