“All right, come in, I’ll show you the map.” They led Ric to a broad city map inside with numerous notes or receipts pinned to it. “Never mind the receipts, those are just for accounting. See this?” One officer gestured to the whole map of the city. “This is where the crime is highest.”
“You circled the whole city.” Ric said, not understanding her meaning.
“Yeah, I know.” She laughed slightly. “My point is that it’s basically all over the place. I can find you spots particularly where it’s higher, but basically everywhere there will be crime. This isn’t exactly Iowa.”
One long discussion and many map sketches later, Ric had a good idea of where his “patrol” would be, and after writing out a nightly plan and some work for college, he was ready to go.
“So, what did you say you were doing?” Amanda walked into the living room wearing his favorite hero’s shirt, a red shirt with a blue spider in the middle.