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Ballard composed a short list of details that she would enter and subtract from until she got a hit. Transgender Bite Brass Knuckles Bound Prostitute Santa Monica Boulevard === He had probably been party to more than a few radio calls staged by detectives to create reason to case a house. It was called ghosting. === It was the Holy Grail of detective work. It had nothing to do with evidence or legal procedure or probable cause. It was just knowing it in your gut. Nothing in her life beat it. === “Where’s your raid jacket?” Smith said. “And I can tell you’re not wearing a vest. Number one, you should’ve had them on, Ballard. Number two, we should have been right here and in on the bust, not driving up to save your ass.” === He was a street artist who until January had done decent business selling portraits of the former president. He reported to Ballard that images of the new president went unsold because his kind of people didn’t come to Venice Beach.