Underworld Turns

“I’ve Never Seen So Many Police Cars”

“I’ve Never Seen So Many Police Cars”

On a dark November evening, I find myself outside a unit at a garden-style apartment complex in Memphis, its parking lot alight in flashing blues and reds. The police are here—about a dozen cars—responding to reports of a violent crime. I’m accompanied by Mauricio Calvo, a 50-year-old local whose friend Diego lives here. Calvo knocks. […]
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