The Detective Savant

Well, the shooting made it into the Daily News. Great. We would be on administrative leave for weeks so we decided to meet with a few guys from our squad after their shift. We went to Finnegan's Wake, a local Irish Pub across from the fire administration building, their headquarters. The first guy that met us there was Bernie Nusbaum. His father was the first Jew to make it to Homicide. But it was a well deserved promotion. He was an outstanding detective in every sense of the word. His son followed in his footsteps. Not only into the police department, but into Homicide. We called Bernie the "savant detective". He could solve cases that anyone else would look at and say, there's no way we'll clear that. He was a cesspool of knowledge. He kind of reminded us of that character on Law & Order, but with no personality. Benie would just stare at the wall for hours at work.