“Derrick is open about his troubled upbringing, where, despite coming from a family with a strong history in law enforcement, his day-to-day life involved breaking into houses and cars, and generally rebelling against a school system he felt neglected his particular talents.”
His particular talents for breaking into houses and cars?
He needed a school program like the one that produced the ironwood engine. A program that had high schoolers over ~3 years learn the fundamentals required to build an engine from scratch (literally), do it and pass with a running engine. You had to draft, make molds, cast brass and iron and machine it... I ran at a school in Michigan from 1918-30 and produced about 200. About a dozen are in collector hands, still running...