Short Stories DETROIT IS OUR BEAT by Loren D. Estleman, 2015, 9781440588457.
Police goon squad in WW2 Detroit. Estleman's introduction about life in Detroit in the 1940s was interesting. How does he balance modern sentiment presenting accurate characters when the cops were violent, racist, misogynistic and more in the 1940s. He also provides a big ass bibliography - an impressive list for any fiction title.
Anyhoo Short stories about a group of four Police Detectives of the Racket Squad. The police department is severely undermanned with Officers joining the service and other able bodied men in the production plants. The Racket Squad are restricted from joining up after being labeled essential. Or, as long as they don't upset their commanders enough to send them to the Navy.
Actually, the four of them seem to figure that military sign-up is inevitable. They are just doing their jobs arresting black marketeers and hitting protestors with clubs until then.
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