Chapter Twelve
Nancy was shuffling through the paperwork from the
shopping-cart detail she’d been assigned earlier, thanks to the local merchants
complaining. The chief had decided it was a top priority to wrangle carts.
However, half the vendors didn’t come pick them up once they impounded them. Another
brilliant idea! The chief was definitely keeping his promise of cleaning up
the downtown. Don’t even get her started on the abandoned-vehicle task force he
had instituted. Due to an overly observant resident with deep pockets who’d
bankrolled the chief’s recent reelection campaign, they now had to police
abandoned cars. s**t like that wasted man-hours and was disrespectful to the
training and work that police officers did. At least they could send out
community officers, if the
