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“Any known misbehavior on the job?”

Chi said, “This is all gossip, you understand, Boxer?”

“I understand What’s the gossip?”

“When Stevens was in Narcotics, there was talk that he -tiainst that guy went ”

“Come on He’s that dirty?”

“The talk never becaation,” said Cappy “Stevens’s boss, Lieutenant Chris Levant, liked him then and likes him to this day Their wives are friends So Stevens was ative team and later partnered up with Moran The two them became the hub of Levant’s Homicide detail”

Cappy continued, “They did close out that case of a teenage girl ent e locker, and they collared the perp, as then convicted So whatever else, they do a good job”

I told Chi and McNeil whatof homeless people had been shot, with no arrests

“She said about three, and that was before the last two”

“You sure about that? You checked out the database?” Chi asked me

“I did But I don’t have names I’m not even sure if the victims had IDs If the cases weren’t worked up, they could have easily been filed as ‘identity unknown,’ ca

se to be solved after the second co”

The bull pen was starting to get noisy The night shift was checking out, and the day shift was drifting into the break roos and grabbing sugared breakfast treats

Chi hunched over the table and said, “Say there’s so to this, Boxer What would be the point of Stevens lying down on the job?”

I shrugged “I hoped you’d tell me”