MY LAW AND ORDER MOMENT.

MY LAW AND ORDER MOMENT. Kids, back in the day, I was once questioned by homicide detectives (as a possible witness, of course). When I was living on Downing Street in the early seventies I walked out one morning and noticed yellow “crime scene” ribbons on some scaffolding right across the street. That evening two homicide detectives came to my apartment to interview me. A body had been found hanging almost directly across the street from my first-floor apartment. In my memory they are like the cops on Law and Order or NYPD Blue—businesslike and efficient. One was a heavy smoker. Even though I lived on the first floor, I didn’t know anything about what had happened. The detectives let me know that they thought the body had been killed elsewhere and left at the site. I decided that meant that disposing of the body there was a tribute to what a quiet street I lived on.