Gil Dobie wrote: Nobody in the neighborhood of the shooting, talks to cops.
That's a big problem that's often overlooked.
This ain't police work. No, it ain't. I mean, I can send any fool with a badge and a gun up on them corners and jack a crew and grab vials. But policing? I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors. They gonna be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up body counts. And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policing, that's just occupied territory.
The point I'm making, Colvin, is this: soldiering and policing... they ain't the same thing. And, before we went and took the wrong turn and started up with these war games, the cop walked a beat. And he learned that post. And if there were things that happened up on that post, whether that be a rape, a robbery, a shootin'... He had people out there helping him, feeding him information
