Chapter 7: Betrayal
"Director."
Elward walked over from near the cordon in the distance, stood beside Drake and whispered, "The City Treasurer is here." β
As the street gangs came to an end, frightened people who had just been hiding in their houses took to the streets, standing outside the yellow line and angrily accusing the police of incompetence, some of them loudly claiming that paying taxes was just a reason for corruption to give the policemen a reason to be corrupt, and that it was better to keep them than to have a dog and hide a gun under the bed. At this extremely embarrassing moment, Aiward brought back even worse news.
"The Chancellor of Finance is here."
Drake looked through the gap in the crowd with a headache, and finally saw a black Lincoln sedan after someone watching the excitement dodged out of the way, and the driver was watching from the rearview mirror with one hand on the window.
βFUCKγβ With a low scolding, Drake stepped out of the yellow line and walked out of the crowd towards the Lincoln sedan.
Drake, who walked around the crowd and walked to the car, opened the door of the Lincoln car without any politeness, and after getting into the car, he could clearly feel the shaking of the car: "Mr. Congressman, the gangsters have made me anxious, I hope you can bring me some good news." β
"How about this?"
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is about forty years old, which is significantly younger than Drake, but in terms of position, every word the Exchequer says at the San Antonio City meeting can affect next year's financial allocation: "The current mayor of San Antonio is in the mud, the large annual appropriations are untraceable, the Exchequer cannot escape any blame, and the citizens have the right to ask them to say why millions of dollars are being allocated to the police departments in the surrounding towns, in the case of changing equipment, increasing personnel, and raising salaries." and still ......"
Hearing this, Drake said a little impatiently: "Mr. Councilor, this is a political zhΓ¬. β
The finance councillor did not listen to this and continued: "It is still impossible to raise a clean police officer in the town, and the town police have been accused of bribery, embezzlement and ...... one after another."
Swish.
Derek snatched the newspaper in an instant, and he found that the report had written roughly about the weekend in Montek, how Christina had been accused of corruption, and how the police chief had forcibly taken the two men away from the interrogation room where they had already been interrogated, and in addition to that, the newspaper was also slamming out at the city leaders and councilors, and at least two-thirds of the story was caused by their lack of eyesight, an incompetent city government.
The exchequer looked at Derek staring at the newspaper and said, "This is politics, yes, but you are now in the political whirlpool." β
"De, this newspaper popped up when Congressman Jonathan had just set up his mayoral campaign office, and it so happened that I saw Congressman Jonathan at a French restaurant in San Antonio two weeks ago, and you can't believe it, I saw who was having dinner with him."
How could Derek not think: "Jimmy Babs. β
"You can't even control your own men now? We've worked so hard to hide all the handles, and now your people are standing on the opposite side, why? β
"How the do I know?" Derek scolded.
The Finance Councillor was stunned for a moment, looked at Drake and said, "Then I will sue you, there are only two situations in which your subordinates betray you, first, you are unfair; Second, your promise has not been fulfilled for a long time. β
"Last year, Mr. Mayor, the old captain you were in the army, when you were honoring the city's anti-gang heroes, you said that Jimmy Babs is the best one under you, and that no one can be quicker than him in dealing with street gang cases, and you are still making good sense jokes that once you retire, he will take over from you and continue to let the town live in the sun, but Jimmy will start as deputy commissioner."
Derek protested, "How can I be blamed for this? I've turned down three times for this damn bastard to give me the deputy director, but this guy didn't pass the promotion test! β
"Did you sue him for a reason?"
"I'm a man, and I'm not going to coax a red-eyed."
"That's why someone more gentle than you has come forward and promised him something."
"And you, you have to get this done."
The finance councillor finally said: "De, there is not much time left, next year is the general election year, and you will retire at the end of this year, don't you want to help Mr. Mayor calm down this qiΔ?" Think about it, who was the first to reach out when you were pardoned by the president, and helped you to the position of police chief, Mr. Chief, you should be grateful. β
Drake gasped hard, he was actually a little tired.
When he was in the army, he thought he was a soldier, but he didn't expect to be transferred to the Homeland Security Agency, where he thought he was an agent, but he didn't expect to run into politics. Now, he is the police chief of his hometown town, and he can't even avoid these SHITs.
He just wants to sweep away all the gangsters before he leaves office, how can there be so much mess?
Looking up, he saw Jimmy Babs.
"Listen, we're struggling in the bureau, and we have to crack this gangster rush case as quickly as possible, understand?" Jimmy quickly gave an order: "Don't worry about the forensic department, don't care about those bullet casings, you, responsible for investigating the surveillance at the entrance of the fried chicken restaurant, the scene just now must have been filmed, I want to know who fired the gun, who fought back, and what the person who killed Omar looked like, at the same time, you don't need to continue the investigation, I will arrest the first wave of gun-wielding minions back to the bureau, and find the guns in their hands, this is the first step." β
"In the second step, I want to understand why the three of them dared to rush into the black ghetto priest's lair, who the person who came represented, his escape route, his car, his license plate, which road he took, whether he was still lurking in the town or leaving."
"Knowing this, with the help of the police database, we can completely figure out what kind of state the two gangs are in, and finally, pry open the mouths of those minions and accuse the top personnel of murder."
"Do you understand?"
"If we want to survive under the use of small tricks by some eyesore people in the bureau, solving this case is our only choice, now, let's take action."
The more Drake looked, the more angry he became, and the more he looked at it, the bigger the fire became: "Jimmy, bring your people here." β
Jimmy Babs, who was trying to solve the case, walked over, and the commandos behind him were getting closer, but this was a conversation between two leaders, and they couldn't get too close, just wandering around the perimeter.
"That's right, the bureau has a batch of very important evidence that needs to be sent to the San Antonio court, which is related to what crime Robin will be sentenced to, and the evidence must not be in trouble, you guys, responsible for the escort."
βWHATοΌβ
Jimmy Babs angrily screamed in front of all the police and onlookers: "The gangs are fighting in the streets, and the residents are frightened to blame the police, at this time you let your commandos escort the evidence?" What about the government's armed escorts? Can't the patrol do this? Didn't the most brilliant cop under you, that damn Zhou, have already crucified the perverted murderer to the gallows with his interrogation? β
"It's an order!"
After saying this, Derick walked away without looking back, ignoring the commandos at all.
Holding the phone in the yellow line on the weekend, he said with a happy face: "Bruno, are you sure that old man knows a lot of information?" β
"OK, I know he has a high status in the black quarter, and we'll be careful what we say."
"Okay, I'll be right here."
Derek walked over to the weekend and said, "Zhou? β
"Derek, we're going to have to put this case down."
"Why?"
"Bruno said that he moved a respected old man in the black district, who was willing to meet us, but we had to be very careful, this old man had never cooperated with the police, but he had the title of the previous street ruler of the black district and fifteen years of street experience."
"That's why you told me to put down the street rush and carry countless black scoldings on my back?"
Weekend put the phone in his pocket and asked, "Mr. Director, do you want to completely ruin the black neighborhood gangsters, or do you just want the priest to go to jail, and after that, the black neighborhood is in chaos, and a group of hooligans have been shooting every day for Evan Busdell's position?" β
On the street, in front of the fried chicken restaurant, Evan Basdale sat on the side of the police car, and Christina beside him kept staring at him, and that gaze was full of anger like fire.
"Hey, have you seen enough, it's not like I'm going to kill." Evan got impatient and shouted at Christina.
Cristina gritted her teeth and didn't even raise her lips and snorted in a nasal voice, "I'm just wondering why you're not dead yet." β
"Then you've got to wait." Evan didn't smile at all, and looked up at Christina obliquely.