Vista Heights Oracle

...for In a Wicked Age

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1,A public housing block where drug sales are rampant 1,An illegally made copy of the key to the evidence room 1,A car rides low due to something heavy in the trunk, obeying all traffic laws 1,The drop piece is just a crummy revolver 1,A neglected child stands in the street wearing only a diaper 1,Everything you need to make a meth lab in one suitcase 1,Thousands of dollars in cocaine, quality unknown 1,He dabs superglue on his fingertips so the gun will only have smeared prints 1,The torture didn't make them talk, but it left horrible scars 1,The money even smells new, still wrapped in the band from the bank 1,No one could have been in a position to take these photographs just by accident 1,The shades are pulled, foil is taped over the windows, towels jammed under the doors 1,False identification, it might even get you over the border 1,"I pay my "rent", so what's your problem, blue?" 1,"If Department health care wasn't such a fucking joke, I wouldn't have to take this." 1,"Shut your mouth you goddamn redneck, I'm in charge now." 1,"I know you speak English, so I'm gonna fucking make you speak it." 1,"What would persuade you there's no story here?" 1,"There's not enough here for a warrant. We both know that." 1,"I want to talk to my lawyer. I memorized his phone number." 1,"I stopped as soon as I found out I was pregnant." 1,"You're asking me to rat on my partner?" 1,"It doesn't matter what you think or what I think. It matters what's on that tape." 1,"Holy shit, he's wearing a fucking wire!" 1,"We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty." 1,"It doesn't matter what the truth is. I am going to fix this either way. Now calm down." 1,She has to work twice as hard to be accepted among the male officers 1,I'm a lot smarter than my partner, so why are they getting the promotions? 1,The spouse never asks where the extra money comes from because the detective never asks what's in those pills the spouse takes every night. 1,The rookie IA cop thinks he can change things, while still resenting that he had to rat on a fellow cop to get in 1,The brass must really hate you to give you this shit detail 1,He has more brutality complaints than anyone else in this whole precinct 1,The security cameras don't cover the whole jailyard 1,No one takes her seriously as a cop - she's too much a club-crawling hottie 1,Every time they ask to be taken off this undercover detail it's denied 1,He takes a dime for every dollar they get off the street and sees nothing wrong with it 1,They've run his son in more times than he wants to count 1,The press wants to take her squad apart and she won't let them 1,He hates politicians worse than drug dealers
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