Beyond it is a corridor, an interview room, a break room, and the stairs.

You cannot lock a police station.

I have heard this story told back to me with me bolting the front doors of a public building against a citizen, and it is a good image and it is not what happened and it would have been unlawful and stupid.

The lobby of that precinct is open to the public and it stayed open.

What I did was open the keypad door and take two children through it into a part of the building he could not enter.

I put them in the break room, which has no window onto the lot, and I turned the light on, and I said: “This door needs a code.