Things I notice

[cantdog]

All in all, I'd rather take my chances with Columbo than with Quincy.

Yeah, labs these days are scary. Your fingerprints may not be in Gauche's water, but your DNA might be, if some ice crystal treacherously causes a cut.

Labs may be able to nail all us potential murderers, in the end.

But they have to use them, and most of the time they only bring out the cop equipment when there's real money involved, or political clout.

I was burglarized, and we came home too soon for him, surprised him and he had to bolt.

Therefore, he had no time to cover his tracks or arrange to remove incriminating things. But the cops refused, even on my invitation, to cross the threshhold and look at the crime scene by casual uneducated lab-free eyeball. They stayed on the stoop. They wanted a list of serial numbers of stolen items.

There had been a dozen or so burglaries. It was not a case in its infancy. But we were without wealth or power. Cops solve most cases by lying on the stand, not investigating.

The burglar was caught because he stole a car and used it, without changing the license plates to drive to Turner and sack a middle-class neighborhood there, going house-to-house while people were at work and at school.

The car had a sign with numbers three inches high across both bumpers, saying "I am stolen." So they got the dudes, and my serial number was there on my headphones.

So they got him because he was as clever and careful as a small squirrel. Without investigation.