for SCIENCE

Okay, inquiring minds want to know, because a police car did a slow drive through the parking lot of the apartment complex yesterday evening, and I suddenly had All These Questions.

How do police officers get into apartment buildings? Or firefighters? Or EMTs? All the doors are locked, and it’s not a fancy electronic code lock, or anything; we have keys. They could buzz the apartment they wanted?

But that seems like it takes a lot of time! And what if it was an emergency? I was thinking they could get the building manager, but what if it was a Wednesday? (He’s not here on Wednesdays.)

And they could probably break down the door, I guess, or use one of those firefighter axes, but what if it wasn’t really *that* much of an emergency? Like, not a chopping down the door kind of situation?

So then I thought: this must be true of tv apartment buildings too! How are people always getting into apartment buildings on detective shows and stuff?

HOW MANY STORIES HAVE I WRITTEN THAT DID NOT TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT?

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