Garfield - the Police Report
I did finally manage to get the narrative police report on Garfield (missing a page and I'm going to request some other items as well). Just by way of explaining my coming criticism, I did a 6-month stint as a volunteer investigator for the Public Defender's office (I've been around) and I had the opportunity to read a lot of police reports and interview many police officers. I learned a lot and naturally, the first thing to always state is that the only thing between us and the bad guys are cops so we have to be grateful for their presence. (And, everyone is always happy to see firefighters but hardly ever the cops. It's a tough, tough job.) This is not a great narrative, you can't follow exactly where the action is at any given point, very loosey-goosey and I suspect that there is a better one out there somewhere. Basically, the officer says that he was told, by the victims (so there are kids who were willing to talk), that they were sitting at lunch on...