>>I'd always planned for the latter, because I loathe automatically-bad-cops stories. It took YEARS for him to slide from good ol' boy attitude into BIGOTRY, and from there into specific soup-fear and THAT bigotry.<<
:D Great minds warp alike. I appreciate having another "down the slippery slope" character to counterbalance the tendency of my supervillains to fall up.
>>His captain even started putting pressure on by assigning him partners who were black, Latina, Vietnamese... <<
Good idea ...
>>She was HOPING he would say or do anything actionably bigoted, even if it was just an internal complaint to the ethics department. <<
But ouch for his partners. *ponder* I wonder if any of them will send notes of commiseration to Cash? "I got stuck with him as my partner for a year. I sympathize with your hardship."
>>She's got a styrofoam "tombstone" tucked in her desk drawer now, with Tanner's badge and ID clipped to it. She feels like they failed to help him early enough, failed to redirect him, etc. She's completely determined to make sure it doesn't happen again. <<
Wow. That's beautiful and heartbreaking. Definitely write it up! "Styrofoam Tombstones" would make a good title.
>> Which makes her a good resource for Bluehill, BTW; her suburb of Chicago doesn't have a lot of budget, but she's making every penny count with better training. Sharing that with other cops is one way she's dealing with her reactions to Tanner. <<
This sounds like Bert's boss. My guess is that one of her ongoing projects is training officers in a very large, very mixed-race city who can then take their experience to smaller, less-mixed locales to provide skills that are harder to get homegrown. And conversely, she's taking their recruits who want to get out of the home turf and head to the big city.
That would make a wonderful connection -- especially now that Ansel is crossing over to support BASH on some of their soup cases. It's a link to possibly swapping Ansel up to Onion City to do a presentation on his work in soup outreach.
Re: the BASH trained cops
:D Great minds warp alike. I appreciate having another "down the slippery slope" character to counterbalance the tendency of my supervillains to fall up.
>>His captain even started putting pressure on by assigning him partners who were black, Latina, Vietnamese... <<
Good idea ...
>>She was HOPING he would say or do anything actionably bigoted, even if it was just an internal complaint to the ethics department. <<
But ouch for his partners. *ponder* I wonder if any of them will send notes of commiseration to Cash? "I got stuck with him as my partner for a year. I sympathize with your hardship."
>>She's got a styrofoam "tombstone" tucked in her desk drawer now, with Tanner's badge and ID clipped to it. She feels like they failed to help him early enough, failed to redirect him, etc. She's completely determined to make sure it doesn't happen again. <<
Wow. That's beautiful and heartbreaking. Definitely write it up! "Styrofoam Tombstones" would make a good title.
>> Which makes her a good resource for Bluehill, BTW; her suburb of Chicago doesn't have a lot of budget, but she's making every penny count with better training. Sharing that with other cops is one way she's dealing with her reactions to Tanner. <<
This sounds like Bert's boss. My guess is that one of her ongoing projects is training officers in a very large, very mixed-race city who can then take their experience to smaller, less-mixed locales to provide skills that are harder to get homegrown. And conversely, she's taking their recruits who want to get out of the home turf and head to the big city.
That would make a wonderful connection -- especially now that Ansel is crossing over to support BASH on some of their soup cases. It's a link to possibly swapping Ansel up to Onion City to do a presentation on his work in soup outreach.