“Being a cop, a detective on real cases, is mostly about boredom. Sitting around doing nothing, pushing paper, talking to people. Waiting. It’s about waiting for something to go wrong. And when we get called, when we have something to do, it means that by definition we’re too late. “I always imagined serving justice, fixing problems. But most of the time we aren’t saviors. We arrive in time to see someone dead, and maybe we catch the person who did it. But that doesn’t matter to the people who were killed. For them we’re really just . . . witnesses.” He looked down. “I tell myself that at
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