No, you hear them coming, that’s it, you gone. You don’t be having time to think okay, what do I got on me, what they going to want from me. If you hear the law coming, you merk on them niggas.
When they sensed the police were near, they did what other young men in the neighborhood did: they ran and hid.Ĭhuck put the strategy concisely to his 12-year-old brother, Tim: Then I realized Chuck also seemed to know when the police were coming. When I first met Mike, I thought his awareness of the police was a special gift, unique to him. Sometimes he finds that his body anticipates their arrival with sweat and a quickened heartbeat before his mind consciously registers any sign of their appearance. His awareness of the police never seems to leave him he sees them sitting in plain clothes at the mall food court with their children he spots them in his rearview mirror coming up behind him on the highway, from ten cars and three lanes away.
He learns the models of their undercover cars, the ways they hold their bodies and the cut of their hair, the timing and location of their typical routes. One of the first things that such a man develops is a heightened awareness of police officers-what they look like, how they move, where and when they are likely to appear. To survive outside prison, he learns to hesitate when others walk casually forward, to see what others fail to notice, to fear what others trust or take for granted. A young man concerned that the police will take him into custody comes to see danger and risk in the mundane doings of everyday life.
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