In this chapter, the narrator delivers a soliloquy in which he laments the fact that the police have become "useless government spongers" . He laments that there are fewer and fewer women in the country who want to live in the city, and that the officers are looking at him in the same way as he is. He tells the officer that he has never seen a police officer with such an expression, and asks the officer to "stop making a fuss" and "take it." The officer responds by arresting a key suspect, and the narrator pleads with the officer not to move. The officer replies that the majority of the girls in his neighborhood are either drug-dealers or addicts, and it is no surprise that he sympathizes with them.