Stan regularly blasts the county commission for building every other department a new office during the past two years, while the sheriff sits in the same beige metal building. Stan has a 30 percent larger force since he took office, plus new cruisers, a lie detector, a drug dog unit and other things. But he still needs more, he says, to do the kind of job he wants to do. Steve, as his right-hand man, keeps the budget figures straight for him. They get to talking about the budget, or about a recent big arrest, and they start finishing each other's sentences and saying the same thing at the same time.
Outsiders can keep up, but they have to concentrate.
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