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Roux and I walk the French some stranger would fill. It is
Quarter twice a day, once in the handy to know who's tree to
morning and once again late in shake if a bad batch of heroin hits
the afternoon. I never wear a the street, the wrong wallet gets
uniform, and I keep my badge poached, or something of a little
and Glock under a loose shirt or too much value suddenly goes
jacket so I blend in rather than missing. I learned the value of
stick out. These walks are when I informant networks when I
get to speak with the locals who worked in intelligence, which
make up my network of seems like an entirely different
informants in the Quarter. Most lifetime ago. The experience of
of them are street vendors and having access to cutting-edge
musicians, starving artists, technology taught me that the
members of street performance best photograph of two people
groups, or part of the city’s talking could never tell me the
homeless population. These topic of their discussion. That was
characters are the eyes and ears something only a server or
bartender might overhear, just as
nobody pays much attention to,
but they are also the ones who a petty thief might spot
might overhear or see anything something through a car window
that is out of order in the roughly that a drone would miss because
eighty square blocks we all call it could only see from directly
home. I also know, and am above.
recognized by, bartenders, The route that Roux and I
servers, strippers, and street
hustlers, either from my follow varies slightly because that
career also taught me the
partnership in the bistro and
from my willingness to take their importance of not being
side in most beefs with drunken predictable to my potential
or otherwise unruly customers. I enemies. I like to walk Roux just
after sunrise, but I gave him
keep much of what they say to another outing so I could show
myself for later use, but any
actionable tips they provide get Hardy’s picture to my favorite
passed along to Chief Avery. contacts.
I also know just about every “We good to go?” I asked Roux
as he did his usual hind leg dance
dope dealer, pickpocket, short
change artist, and petty thief after he peed on the bare ground
working the Quarter. I leave them of the neutral ground on
alone to do their business because Esplanade.
arresting them creates a vacuum Roux trotted ahead of me,
staying barely three feet ahead so
Quarter twice a day, once in the handy to know who's tree to
morning and once again late in shake if a bad batch of heroin hits
the afternoon. I never wear a the street, the wrong wallet gets
uniform, and I keep my badge poached, or something of a little
and Glock under a loose shirt or too much value suddenly goes
jacket so I blend in rather than missing. I learned the value of
stick out. These walks are when I informant networks when I
get to speak with the locals who worked in intelligence, which
make up my network of seems like an entirely different
informants in the Quarter. Most lifetime ago. The experience of
of them are street vendors and having access to cutting-edge
musicians, starving artists, technology taught me that the
members of street performance best photograph of two people
groups, or part of the city’s talking could never tell me the
homeless population. These topic of their discussion. That was
characters are the eyes and ears something only a server or
bartender might overhear, just as
nobody pays much attention to,
but they are also the ones who a petty thief might spot
might overhear or see anything something through a car window
that is out of order in the roughly that a drone would miss because
eighty square blocks we all call it could only see from directly
home. I also know, and am above.
recognized by, bartenders, The route that Roux and I
servers, strippers, and street
hustlers, either from my follow varies slightly because that
career also taught me the
partnership in the bistro and
from my willingness to take their importance of not being
side in most beefs with drunken predictable to my potential
or otherwise unruly customers. I enemies. I like to walk Roux just
after sunrise, but I gave him
keep much of what they say to another outing so I could show
myself for later use, but any
actionable tips they provide get Hardy’s picture to my favorite
passed along to Chief Avery. contacts.
I also know just about every “We good to go?” I asked Roux
as he did his usual hind leg dance
dope dealer, pickpocket, short
change artist, and petty thief after he peed on the bare ground
working the Quarter. I leave them of the neutral ground on
alone to do their business because Esplanade.
arresting them creates a vacuum Roux trotted ahead of me,
staying barely three feet ahead so
