Michael Reiter: March 2005

mv Tee aes CHAPTER 6 Michael Reiter: March 2005 5 more like a bank president than a cop. hief Reiter look But He’s well built, with an air of formality and discretion. he’s got twenty-four years on the job. Decades earlier, he n Pittsburgh. Then he rose, steadily, from patrol officer ed crime, then was a campus police officer i through the ranks in Palm Beach, moving up to detective, working vice, narcotics, and organiz becoming a sergeant, captain, major, and assistant chief—a job he held for three years—before becoming chief of police. Reiter chief of police in Palm is what youd call seasoned, although ical skills as much as his Beach is a job that calls upon his polit street smarts. Then again, from time to time, things d Once in a blue moon there are murder membered for decades. d with, and, when the o happen. s—though these are so rare that they tend to be re Sometimes there are hurricanes to conten 18 a Se j sea calms, human cargo ° fickers aim the bows of the order their passengers to ¢ Most of the passengers who stake all they have or to time, Palm Beach cops | Things get busier dur it, the season. It’s when | ties and balls, shop, and 1 Worth Avenue. The popu who work under Chief R ers, and snotty skateboar tic disturbances. Chokin stuff, but there’s always women who work for Rei Chief Reiter’s proud « knows, they’re lucky to h: for the job. If anything, h the John F. Kennedy Sch: terrorist training at Quan up often at cocktail partie hijackers lived in Palm Bi local airstrips. A few, inc! had been regulars at 251! There they had regaled made-up stories about the But 251 Sunrise is shi e : 2004, after an avalanche o! 4 Beach is as quiet and calm For the moment. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019134