I stepped inside the Commisioner’s office and entered another world. Leather couches, windows with curtains, and a bowl full of Hershey’s kisses placed neatly on a glass coffee table.

I felt like I was in an office at Trump Tower.

“Can I help you?” A detective approached me.

“Yeah, I have a letter here for the Commissioner requesting an urgent meeting?”

“Hmm, let me get one of our secretaries here.”…..

One night I was sifting through a pile of “official police documents” at work and punching them into the system. I came across one for “Forcible Touching, 2nd Degree” and tried to think of an appropriate abbreviation for such a charge, since the field for inputting charges was ridiculously short to begin with, forcing us to come up with all sorts of creative abbreviations so we could fit the…..