This is the City

This is the city- Sacramento, California.


Some 700,000 people live here, most of them work in one building.


Down at the precinct, we say you could drop an atomic bomb on the capitol building and not one innocent by-stander would get hurt. Back when I came on the job back in the 70s, we had a guy named Jerry Brown as governor.


 After destroying the state, he skipped town and dropped out of sight. Every now and then, we'd get sightings. They said he was hiding out in Oakland. When we asked the mayor's office to check it out, they said he wasn't anywhere to be seen. Then we got reports he was hiding out right here in Sacramento. We sent a request to the Attorney General's Office to check that out, but they didn't know anything either. They said they were too busy investigating corporate polluters to look for him.

Anyway, crime in Sacramento has been rampant for decades. No, not the kind of crime you usually think of, such as bank robberies, murders and liquor store hold-ups. The only people who get raped are the tax-payers. No, Sacramento is the state capitol of white-collar crime. Up until a few years ago, the king-pin of crime in Sacramento was a wise guy named Fabian Nunez. In fact, the whole family was rotten. His son, Esteban, went up on a murder rap when he and some of his pals stabbed a couple of kids in San Diego. One of them died. The Nunez kid went up the river for 16 years until our strongman governor, some guy named Katzenjammer, cut the sentence down to 7 as a favor to his pal, Fabian.

I call it corruption. That's where I come in. My name's Friday. I carry a badge. I'm a cop.



We were working the day shift in Lovers' Lane when we got the call.


"Knock it off and see the man. in the Capitol."

"10-4."

When we got to the Capitol, the security guard directed us to the office of Assemblyman Mike Duvall. We weren't taking any chances, so we kicked in the door. Lucky for us we had arrived just in time.

"Thank God you're here, officers. This man is a brute."

"Just the facts, Ma'am."

Two hours later, we had finished booking Duvall, and we were on our way back to Lover's Lane when we got another call.


"Knock it off and see the man. at the Capitol."

"10-4."

We got to the Capitol building, where the security guard told us, "I think you'll find something interesting up in the Governor's office.

We weren't taking any chances, so we kicked in the door. What we found shocked even these hardened detectives.

"How'd you guys find me?"

"Never mind. Get your hat. We're going downtown."

"But we are downtown."

It had been a long day. As we were knocking off, I told my partner, "You know. I think it's time to pull the plug. I ain't getting any younger, and the pace is too much for me here in Sacramento. I got a job offer down in LA, and I'm thinking of taking it. It's time to slow down and take it easy, you know what I mean?"


"Can I come with you?"

"10-4."