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A shoplifter struck at a boutique downtown. Her license plate was recorded, I look her up and get a copy of her drivers license
photo. I compare it to the surveillance recording from inside the store. Unfortunately for her, she was wearing in both her DOL
photo and her shoplifting event, the exact same very distinctive striped shirt. Turns out she was a doctor’s housewife, bored,
looking for a little excitement.

Laywers’s office on fire in the middle of the night. It was arson, caused by a disgruntled former employee. Fire department put
out the fire. But missed a small smoldering hot spot in an inside wall, which about an hour later reignited and turned into a fire
bigger than before. It wound up destroying the building. After that, the fire department invested in a thermal imager which they
used after every fire call to make sure they wouldn’t get embarrased like that again.

Several times during my career I’ve had the very minor distinction of being the first officer to arrest and handcuff a young person
for a crime that needed arresting for – and then those young people grow older (but not wiser) and turn into career criminals,
and eventually wind up in prison for a long time. And I’d reminisce and go “Yeah, of that’s moron’s 38 arrests, I was his first…”