It was a particularly stressful time in my own life. Even with the new associates, I was overwhelmed by the workload and having trouble sleeping. Three weeks earlier, while giving a talk on criminal personality profiling to about 350 NYPD, Transit Police, and Nassau and Suffolk County, Long Island, police officers, the stress had gotten to me—I’d had a momentary but overpowering feeling of dread, even though I’d given the speech many times before.
