Excerpt #22

Once released from phase training. You are assigned to a squad and evaluated once a month by your Sergeant.I was originally assigned to Northeastern Division. Northeastern Division is a more affluent area of the city, but with fewer crime problems. I would’ve rather worked the Eastern area which included every type of crime. I preferred to be where the real action was. I went down to personnel and spoke to Sergeant Hoffman to see what the criteria was in the assigning of personnel to a particular area. I asked Hoffman if I could trade with someone from my academy class. He pointed to a name which turned out to be Greg McClendon. He said, ” How about him.” I said he was the class clown and didn’t know his left foot from his right foot when marching. Hoffman said, ” No problem, here is all I have to do and took a bottle of white out and whited out the” N” for Northeastern next to my name and wrote in an “N.” next to McClendon’s name. Hoffman said, You have now been reassigned to Eastern Division. I shook his hand, thanked him and left. Greg McClendon’s name will be of importance later on in the book. #Switcheroo

Author: Larry Avrech