[maica]

I have to add this tidbit, too.

***
I didn't sleep that night. I replayed the events, imagining how things might have turned out differently. The next night, I called the detective who had been dispatched to take the report.

Fourth District Detective Toni Pollack told me the Maryland tag number still had not been run.

"Huh?" I said, disbelieving. "Is that unusual?"

"No, that's not unusual," she said. "You have to understand we don't have the same computer system" that police in Maryland have. She said she had tried to run the tag the night of the shooting, but "the computer was down." ***

[Travis McGee]

Incedible and depressing, even DC.