The short story, "The Baddest Dog in Harlem," by Walter Dean Myers, is about some friends who are sitting on a railing in the city, close to the cafeteria "Big Joe's Place." They talk about boxing and discuss about who is the best boxer ever. They've had the same discussion before, but Willie Murphy as there's this bad faith man who always thinks he's right because he's the oldest. As their discussion was at the highest. Willie watched two police cars roar past the corner. The two police cars stopped in front of the boys and as they got out of the car they aimed the guns on the boys. They suspected that one of the boys was the man they were looking for, walking around with automatic weapons. As a boy shouts that he can see someone in a building above suddenly all attention directed towards the building, including the police officers guns. All the people went down on the ground. The boys after climbed into the restaurant where they could follow what’s going on. A policeman falls to the ground and his gun goes off, shooting through the restaurant's window. As the bullet hit the window the rest of the police officers shot at the building. It was the same building that at start, the kid said something was going on in. After they have fired over 100 shots against the building, they stopped. Then a young lady comes by and ask why they opened fire against her apartment and now have destroyed her new curtains. They ask where her boyfriend was, and after tells her to follow them up in her apartment. She will only cooperate if she gets another black man up.l That black man becomes the narrator/main character who joins. As they come up in the apartment, it looks like a mess filled with bullet holes everywhere on the walls. They see a dog completely dead laying on the floor. Soon after down a hall, the policeman finds, a black little boy, who also got hit and died in the heavy shooting. The short story takes place in the 70’s. I can tell that