The “fat, old bookkeeper” of a police chief with the “toy badge” had, like every boss in the world over the last twenty years, gotten his job by selling himself as a champion of “quantitative, measurable units of policing.” Stats. So, one day, Chuck looked up the numbers of his new unit. The SPD Property Crimes division maintained an “active solution/recovery rate” of between 2 and 5 percent. That’s when Crazy Ass Chuck Littlefield devised his cruel and brilliant revenge. First, he went off his meds.
