Story: "Officer Down, Part One: These Are Your Rights" (22 Pages)

Credits:

Greg Rucka (plot, script)
Rick Burchett (pencils)
Rodney Ramos (inks)
Willie Schubert (letters)
Noelle Giddings (colors)
Wildstorm FX (color separator)
Bob Schreck (edits)

Feature Character:

Batman (next in Robin Vol. 2 #86)

Supporting Characters:

James Gordon
Renée Montoya
Harvey Bullock
Crispus Allen (all four next in Robin Vol. 2 #86)
Stacy (next in Birds of Prey #27)
Tommy Burke
Dagmar Procjnow
Vincent Del Arrazio
Joely Bartlett
Oracle (behind the scenes; next in Robin Vol. 2 #86)

Villains:

Jordan Reynolds (first appearance; an officer of the GCPD; last in flashback in Nightwing Vol. 2 #53; in flashback in Catwoman #90 in between pages)
Catwoman (last in Nightwing Vol. 2 #52; both next in Robin Vol. 2 #86)
Rick
Stanley (first appearance of both)

Other Characters:

Eric Cohen
Andy Kasinsky (GCPD detectives; last names not revealed; both next in Birds of Prey #27)
Steve
Vanessa (GCPD officers)
Lowell (Jordan Reynolds' partner; last in flashback in Nightwing Vol. 2 #53; next in Birds of Prey #27)

Synopsis:

It's James Gordon's birthday, and the major crimes unit takes him out for drinks to celebrate, though he promises to see his daughter Barbara afterwards (she's baked him a cake). They give him gifts, some more appropriate than others, and then he hands them each something too: a handcuff key. Partly because such things are always going missing and partly because they symbolise the authority of the police. He explains this to the cops as Batman goes about his normal business.

The greatest power the police have is the power of arrest, the right to remove a person's liberty. Gordon says that he realised this for the first time when he arrested a man in front of the criminal's wife and children, who were in tears at the thought. Detective Allen remembers a lieutenant in Metropolis who always used to point out the other side of this particular coin: that every murder victim is also someone's father, mother, sibling or child. Gordon then has to leave, as he's late for meeting Barbara. Out in the alley, he meets Catwoman and tells her she's under arrest. But before he can do anything, some shots ring out. He fires instinctively, grazing Catwoman's thigh, but has been seriously injured himself, shot three times in the back by a lone gunperson.