Arresting Developments
Bullet point seems the way to go when introducing a police story:
+ Since 2003, after writing my true-crime book - One Down One Missing - I’ve been missing from the police beat.
+ That changed last month when Sunday Life magazine threw me into the scrimmage of the Domestic Violence Unit in western Sydney - and a country practice in Victoria’s Kyneton.
+ The brief was to find the humans ‘hiding’ behind the uniforms.
+ Over three 18-hour shifts I came to meet Footy, Brains, Sponge, Clarky (1 and 2), Kursk and Damo, as well as a few orthodox names.
+ Their stories are entwined in the feature I’ve just posted to your right.
+ And to finish noir-wise on my 6th bullet - I’ve been madcap this week collecting playground rhymes and chasing down Gold Coast school-leavers (both for magazine stories) - not to mention preparing for my first script workshop at the Storeroom Theatre in North Fitzroy.
(If they all sound like separate blog postings for another time, I’d say you’re remarkably intuitive. Till then - )