Early morning.
Jiang Yuan'an made his way on foot to Qianjin District Bureau's Criminal Police Team for work.
Members of Jiang Yuan's Accumulated Case Team also followed the same route, with more than twenty lively young people chatting away as they walked, all clad in reflective-striped trousers, heads swinging, exuding charm.
"If a thief were to strike now, with a robbery right in the street, and we subdued him, that would just be too cool," Mu Zhiyang said. If he had a tail, he'd be swishing it, possibly knocking over the wares of the vendors on both sides.
"The situation with petty thieves here in Qinghe City is a bit different, because the decline in public safety happened suddenly," Jiang Yuan was considering the possibility of catching small-time criminals. But Qinghe was not like Beijing, where many of the petty thieves really are trying to make a living, whereas many such thieves in Qinghe resort to theft only because they can't make a living.