(In real life, Ed Burns said he had told the state’s attorney, who went to a judge, that the police department should be more proactive in its investigations. “He called up the deputy commissioner, who in turn called my captain, who in turn screamed at me as I was walking out the door to go to work on that case,” Burns said. “Sure enough, at the end of the case we brought back, he was very, very happy, and then they tried to get rid of me.”)
