Police officer

When he saw me he cried out, Ho, comrade, I'll keep a place for you at my right.

The two policemen and the god Hibou looked at one another and smiled, while I felt the goose flesh creep down my back and shoulders to my waist.

THREE Schlissel led the way to a large room furnished with rows of benches arranged in a semicircle.

The aspect of this spacious hall deserted as it was, with its two high grated windows, its image of the Saviour in old browned oak with his arms extended and his head inclined toward one shoulder, inspired me with a sort of religious fear that harmonized with my situation.

I almost thought that I had murdered the old woman, but how? When? My brain was confused.

Everything seemed to dance before my eyes.

It was evident that the two policemen already saw me on the road to the gallows.

I will not attempt to describe the agony of mind I suffered that night as I sat on my bunch of straw, the bull's-eye window before and above me, and the gallows in perspective, and heard from hour to hour the watchman cry out,

We need to be in charge of our own teeter-totter.

But the problem with police work, Anton, and when I train police officers, I tell them this, we're trained to take emotion out of it.

Because when you're high logic and reason, you can make split-second decisions to save your life or the life of others, which is important.

That's a great way to stay alive.

And there was some appeal to that for me.

And you're outside, you're not stuck in a desk all day.

So, you know, those things appealed to me, but It wasn't but a couple years into my career before I started getting prevention-focused because police work is a cleanup business for the most part.

People call when they're having a horrible day, and we come and try to put all the pieces back together again, and you can't.

You know, Michael, people talk about flock cameras.

We were able to get some through the COPS program a lot for the communities.

And, Bob, we talked to all the different chiefs who needed them.

And why anybody, like in this case here, there's 100,000 cases like this where flock cameras work.

Now, this dinghy got into British waters, a lifeboat went out and safely brought it to shore, and word went round Portsmouth, courtesy of social media and far-right activists, and they fired up a flash mob of hate, basically, descended on Portsmouth to try and stop these people being brought and dispersed to camps where they would be registered for asylum and taken care of.

Big standoff with the Cops, and it all blew up overnight.

It's one that we'll talk about more, I have no doubt.

The far right winning in Germany.