Chapter 21

Smith was out of the cubicle in a second; he didn’t want to lose his nerves and then try to talk Martin out of it. He could see the point the man raised, and it just might actually work. It didn’t matter what the police said over and over again about them not being bullies. The truth is that they were when they needed to be.

As a matter of fact, bullying was relative, and most people saw the fact that uniformed men were telling them what to do as bullying. It didn’t matter if that instruction was for the greater good or not. No one wanted to be ordered, and once you were in the position where you did the ordering, you were the bully, and they were the victim.

The whole theory of power and how it was wielded was settling in with Smith, and as each day passed, he was coming to terms with the fact that people didn’t like cops so much. Unless they were children, and even children didn’t like them; they just found it cool and interesting until they grew up and knew the job o