And the disinterested attitude, that takes practice.
Dancing around like an excited schoolgirl would be bad.
Someone tells Ethel down the road, who tells someone at church, and eventually the dopers find out the cops know about the vehicle or all the looky-loo’s show up and contaminated the scene.
And it was an interesting night, church Christmas program, where i got to listen to a couple of old biddies in the pew ahead of us talking about an active case.
When I left the department, I turned over 6 4″ binders of doper information to the task force. Names, addresses, vehicle information, backgrounds, complete workups. Who was associated with whom, who used what vehicle for what, etc.