I don't remember this first building at all. As a little girl my mother and I would ride the bus down Michigan Street hill and up Monroe Avenue. It was an industrial area and the stores and restaurants catered to men. My mother never set foot in that area. There was a rabbit-warren of little streets and traffic cops stood in the intersections directly traffic. The closest I got was the Aracade (just east of Flannery's bar) which was a covered walkway that catered to men. I remember cigars and certain magazines. I'd walk in until the men noticed me and chased me out.

That new police building was a joke. Poorly made, poorly constructed. Out-of-date before it was occupied. The 40-person drunk tanks were left unused as being drunk was suddenly not a crime and the drunks were taken to Mel Trotter Mission.

It was on the same heating/air conditioning system as City Hall which promptly shut it down at 4:30 pm every Friday afternoon. Obviously  the big-wigs at City Hall didn't realize the police department was open 24/7.  I remember when the ceiling collapsed and fell down on my head. I wasn't sorry to see that hunk of junk torn down.

I don't remember their second location either and I worked at the new City Hall which was placed near what had been the corner of Crescent Street and Bond Avenue which were vacated to build that hunk of junk. The inside is a mess. The north side and south side are mirror images of each other or is it the east side and the west side? Opposite corners have the men's room and the ladies room.  Only one elevator stops at all the floors and the staircases that don't stop at the same floors are in opposite corners. So you couldn't tell anyone to turn right or left.

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