"I'm a cop from a city that was pretty shitty," at least Detroit started out shitty, it became less so. Marginally. The recent layoffs were not helping, and after one rough drug battle that he somehow managed to win he senses they might move to another. That's completely beside the point, though, other than he has a few stab scars here and there from it. "And even then? I don't envy you.

"I'm a cop here, too, so if you see anyone that's getting way too hostile with the equipment and not just fuck-stupid with it you can yell at me. I can help excuse 'em back to the station."

He's still bottom rung, but he's high enough to do an arrest and escort a guy to the station. And despite having developed a decent spare tire around the midsection during his years of depression, he can still restrain a perp with the... okay not the best of them. Connor is the best of them, in his opinion. But pretty high up there as far as humans go.