> I reiterated I didn’t want them to do anything illegal to help me, made a joke about it only costing $800 so it’s no felony, and insisted it would get solved

> I reiterated I didn’t want them to do anything illegal to help me, made a joke about it only costing $800 so it’s no felony, and insisted it would get solved within an hour. It worked! You can see this is written by a white man, the middle-class status probably also helps. Not sure a non-middle-class person of color or a Latin American would have dared entering said precinct and using that tone ("made a joke") with the police officers.