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In Richard Price’s New Novel, Haunted Cops And Cases They Couldn’t Close

Crime fiction writer Richard Price (Clockers, HBO’s The Wire) explains why his book is called The Whites:

There’s always been one guy in every precinct who has been so haunted by a case that they either knew who did it and couldn’t prove it, or the guy walked, and it just gets inside the cop to the point [that] when they retire, they’re sneaking out all the legal boxes with all the case files, all the transcripts, the interviews and everything. And they’re going to continue working on it in their basement, have a six-pack of beer and start making odd calls like they’re still cops. They can’t let go of this thing — this thing can’t let go of them.

It’s different for every cop in a world of 20 years of mayhem, they each pick one case that got to them. It’s rarely the goriest case; it’s rarely about a body count. It’s about some element of this crime that spoke to them — identification with the aggressor, identification with the victim. …

The point is all these obsessed cops with their single case. … They all reminded me of Ahab [the protagonist in Moby Dick], so therefore they’re looking for their whales. They’re looking for their whites.

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Heard Price’s interview on NPR while driving through the night from Mesa to Riverside, CA. Sounds like a good read.

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Basically, if I could have it my way.

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