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The Squad Room, where roll call was held before each shift, looked almost like a hospital treatment room but with different equipment. The tiled floor was gleaming; the furniture was all metal and plastic; and the white board was covered with miscellaneous notes about various topics in handwriting that was hard to interpret at best. Max’s squad consisted of seven other officers and the Sarge. Before every shift, Sarge held roll call, gave a briefing, handed out any special assignments and wished everyone well with a few words about how lazy the squad was if they didn’t generate enough “paper.”
While the court system had long ago deemed ticket writing quotas unconstitutional, the Sarge made no secret of the fact that he expected every officer on the squad (Max’s 9-person squad had one female officer) to write a minimum of five pieces of paper per shift. That included traffic citations, repair orders, reports, field interactions, etc. While that might seem easy, on a beautiful Sunday evening shift when fewer people were getting drunk and crime was at its lowest all week (with the possible exception of the Monday graveyard shift), it wasn’t so. Max wasn’t the kind of cop who would go out and pull someone over for doing a few miles an hour over the speed limit just to write the citation and “get the stat.” He had vowed early on, to himself, not to be a hypocrite cop. He sped some… as much as 10-15 miles per hour over the speed limit, so he tried not to pull people over unless they were doing that or more. He didn't come to a complete stop at every stop sign, so unless someone blatantly ran a stop sign, he didn't write tickets for the violation.
Max’s focus was brought back to the present as Sarge stepped up to the podium in front of the room and cleared his throat. The eight officers in attendance grew quiet and gave him their attention. Sarge started with his usual friendly tone… (sarcasm)
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