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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 30 of 307 consultations. I'll bet that after he cleans up he is a veritable patrician. I flew away from there and, before entering into the databases of the Salt Lake City Police department, I sneakily chained some servers and made a bread crumb trail that would have confused Atom Ant. Steve had been a police officer in Salt Lake City for eighteen years. That's all I could learn. Apparently he had not collected his retirement. He had been "dismissed" with "charges pending." There was all kind of space in these files for descriptions of events and the names of people involved, but all of that was missing. I guessed that Steve had pulled out everything juicy and condemning. Why not just delete the file? Too obvious? Perhaps Steve knew that most files just sit in cyber-space taking up tiny kilobytes until someone needs to know something. A missing file might generate too much interest, but a neatly vacuumed file will simply be dismissed as an error. So all I could learn was that something had happened that Steve wanted to hide. I guess that made him just about like everyone else on the planet. Now that I knew Steve really did have something to hide, most likely a transgression against civility that had cost him his valuable Salt Lake Police Department retirement, I lost the appetite for snooping. But I still hoped to discover if his |