The death of a two-year-old boy nicknamed En En (恩恩) in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和) caused public outrage and people to blame the city’s mayor. Like me, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) is from Chiayi County’s Puzi City (朴子). When former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was Taipei mayor, Hou was commissioner of the Taipei Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division and I was commissioner of the city’s Department of Health. As commissioners, we attended the city’s Police and Sanitation Committee meetings, and we helped with each other’s duties on numerous occasions. We also worked together on the murder