It’s 9:45 on a Friday night, and I am just now sitting down in the roll-call room. I grab a back-row seat and look around. It’s not a full house. My ten fellow officers and I don’t even fill the last two rows of chairs. With the 11 of us patrolling one-third of the city, we are five officers below our staffing minimum. Three years ago, 18 officers would have covered the same area.
