The Good Cop by Dorien Grey

Author:Dorien Grey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Published: 2015-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Though I knew Richman’s visit wasn’t going to be a social call, I stopped and picked up a six-pack of bock beer, just in case, and was home by 5:15. I had a couple messages, from Jared and Bob Allen but didn’t dare return them until I’d had a chance to call them from a pay phone and let them know my line was tapped.

At almost exactly 5:30, the buzzer rang and I pressed the entry door unlock button and waited for Richman’s knock.

We shook hands at the door and he came in and took a chair. I offered him a beer but, as I expected, he passed.

“My wife’s expecting me for dinner, so I can’t stay long.”

I took a seat on the couch across from him and leaned forward, elbows on my knees.

“So what happened?”

Richman sighed and sat back in his chair. “Well, I first talked to Captain Offermann, who is one of Chief Black’s strongest allies—and who, I can assure you, was far less than happy to have Officer Brady’s homosexuality confirmed—and he got us in to see the chief almost immediately. The upshot is that the chief called Cochran in for a private meeting, and apparently they’ve reached something of a standoff, if not exactly a truce. If your friend Jonathan agrees not to press charges against Giacomino—he can always do that later if he wants to, after things settle down—Chief Black has agreed to not pursue it and Giacomino’s links to Cochran, in exchange for Cochran’s agreement not to press the Brady issue. I suspect those links go a lot deeper than we know.”

He sighed, and I knew it was a precursor to something I didn’t want to hear. “But this is a pretty shaky standoff, and I’m not sure it will hold. Cochran may not use a frontal assault on Brady, but you can be damned sure he’s not finished. Cochran’s a rabid homophobe, and he sees this Brady affair a golden opportunity, not only to discredit Chief Black by his association—however loose—with Brady through his wife, but to rid the department of gays and anyone else who thinks the department needs to move forward.

“The minute Cochran heard that Brady’d been in a gay bar prior to the shooting, he wanted him out. He wanted to put Brady on suspension immediately pending an inquiry into the ‘circumstances of the shooting’—which means the probability of Brady’s being gay. When Chief Black vetoed that idea, knowing full well that he’d have the entire gay community up in arms, Cochran was furious. Suspending Brady would have given Cochran and his boys a pulpit and a theme for their attacks on what they see as the undermining of the ‘moral foundations of the force’—which is to say, the status quo that has kept the good ol’ boys in power all these years.”

“And the phone taps?”

Richman shrugged. “Another ‘iffy’ area. Cochran of course vehemently denied having any knowledge of it, but Chief Black made it clear that if they

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