I joined a cop for a ride-along. His car siren soon started whooping
We hear a lot about American law enforcement these days. If it’s not the continuing debate about defunding the police, it’s Donald Trump sending in troops to restore order to Washington DC and Chicago. To learn more about the situation here in Seattle, I joined Deputy Cy Brame of the sheriff’s office, one characteristically grey and drizzly afternoon, to witness some of the encounters with the felonious – or merely the lost and confused – who populate his working day. The action began immediately. There are better ways to start a 15-hour shift than to hear the words: ‘Fire at the Renton Avenue Shell station. Possible injuries. Attend scene stat.’ That was the stark dispatch that came over the radio of Deputy Brame’s car, followed by a sudden turn of speed. ‘You’re lucky,’ said the sports-loving Brame, who’s 32 and confirms the adage about policemen looking ever younger to life’s...
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