Police Presence

Yes, I'm making applesauce today.  I went to Kroger very early for those Granny Smith apples.  (Very few people, everyone wore masks, no waiting to check out.)

I came out of my house, admiring the flowers and the pretty morning.  Got in my car and noticed that there was a policeman and police car on my near-by corner.  He told me I had to turn around and go the other way.  Asked if I had seen a man running through the neighborhood this morning.  No.

When I came back from that quick trip to the store, three policemen were escorting someone from a back yard on the street below me.  I waited at the stop sign while the person was placed in a police car parked around the corner, where I was going.  A neighbor asked a policeman what was going on.  He replied that there was a burglary in a house up that street and that all three suspects had been caught.

I admit to being pretty complacent in my neighborhood and I was a bit shook up.  I thought about people for whom police presence in their neighborhoods occurs regularly.  I wonder what that is like for them.  And I thought that we must have more police in my small city than I'd realized.