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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

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Every night, you fly out to places with colleagues in distress and every night, you go hunting for some kid who thinks he's the devil himself. Then one day, the hunt ends and you realize it's you who are the prey.Narrator
Not everything that counts can be counted.Detective
There are two kinds of people in this world that run around beeping at others. The scanners...and the scanees.Detective
The untrained observer can easily mistake coincidence for causality.Narrator
There's a certain kind of chaos that thrives in the precinct, a perpetual slurry of confusion and disputations.Narrator
The murder is the anomaly, the impossibility that can't be understood. The detective’s job is, in the end, about imposing understanding on that which is forbidden to comprehend.Detective
Even in moments of tranquility, murder is just the end point of a different set of anomalies.Narrator
To perceive the world is to recognize, if only fleetingly, the terror within. And any man, on any given day, may find himself running in fear and confusion from the dread beast reality.Narrator
The detectives arrive in a world that is fractured and disjointed, but by the time they leave, it is a story. It is the detective’s story.Detective