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The time I followed a patrol K9 unit on a fresh track, late one warm summer night, looking for a burglar. The dog led us to a
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front porch where some kids – 6 graders - were having an overnight sleepover. All hell broke loose in the still of the night when
the dog starting chewing on one of the kids. I was horrified; of the several kids present, the dog had quickly sniffed them all and
then decided to start biting the one black kid present. The parents and neighbors woke up to the all the barking and the cops
yelling and the kids hollering and it turned out that the dog was right on; that one black kid had been the burglar. He had just
come back and was settling into his sleeping bag and surprise! Police dog in your face! The K9 handler and I were horrified at
first but when the kid confessed we felt a lot better about the outcome.

The low-income apartment renter who moved out suddenly and left behind such a mess it required workers in biohazard suits
to clean it up. Her $900 rent had been subsidized by the government; her share was only $63 a month. Shortly after that the
entire apartment complex ended their government contract to provide low-income housing; all of the units were remodeled and
upgraded, the low-income folks were made to leave, and new renters who were capable and willing to pay around $1,500 a month
for one bedroom apartments moved in. A lot of people cried about how tragic it was that the low-income folks got forced out. I
was not one of them; I was quite glad to see all those people leave. Because guess how many police calls we got to that place
after the place got cleaned up? NONE! None more calls requiring police intervention!