15
COLOUR-CODED STREETS
The officers of H Division were used to the demands of Whitechapel. They knew that every shift would be busy. Crime was the constant companion of poverty, transient crowds the perfect setting for predators and targets.
Yet it was a rare shift indeed when there wasn’t even time for a cup of tea somewhere along the beat. None of them could remember anything that compared to this.
Inspector Wilder and his team at Commercial Street station had been struggling to maintain order for more hours than was healthy. They needed a rest. But from early afternoon until well past sundown, hordes of disgruntled citizens just kept on coming.
Wilder tried to organise the masses. Get some kind of sequence of events. File their statements in chronological order. Whilst trying to g
