Dylan Love  My chariot for the evening  Not even one minute into
my ridealong with a North Carolina cop, I heard gunshots.  But
these were text message notification sounds coming from Sergeant
Jonathan Morgan's cellphone. Gunshots are one of the worst-case
scenarios for a cop, and it isn't until I point it out that he
realizes how morbid his cell phone sound is.  Sergeant Morgan
picked me up in the parking lot of a computer store in downtown
Asheville for a six-hour ridealong.  The cliché is that cops
become cops because they don't want to be stuck behind a desk.
Morgan agrees, but explains that a police car can easily feel
like an office. There's a computer, there's paperwork, and there
are people to answer to over the radio.  Despite all this, a
cop's shift is very self-directed -- if the police car is an
office, then cops are entrepreneurs.   Dylan Love  Asheville
public housing   Sergeant Morgan rarely looks straight ahead as
he's driving. I assume his training has him constantly looking
around, trying to