Cora doesn’t know if any of that is true, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it. As a crime scene cleaner, she knows better than Mayor Webb when there’s been an uptick in violent crime. Cora doesn’t particularly trust the mayor’s word at this point either. His platform has always been More Police Everywhere All the Time, and in times of fear, a lot of people think that’s enough to keep them safe. But a few months ago, the city had protested for days after the police shot a Black man trying to fix his flat bike tire on the sidewalk. The NYPD drove a police car into a crowd of protestors and all
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