Apology to the Denver cops for the stupid way that sounded ...

At left is where I live, which for a change has to do with this story I'm going to share about the Denver cops and this stupid, stupid thing I said the other day that I am mortified about. OK so this is Tuesday or so and I'm leaving my building to go to work and these two guys who look like, you know, cops in plain clothes (note regional taste in attire), are walking up the steps and ask if I will let them in. I'm one of those people who feels pretty safe in the world, so unless you've got a crack pipe hanging from your mouth or are holding an AK-47 -- side note from Wikipedia:
AK-47 is short for Russian:
Автомат Калашникова образца 1947 года; Kalashnikov model automatic rifle of 1947
LOVE THAT STUFF!! ANYWAY! Whatever, I'm probably going to let you into the building. (Like, this isn't South Africa and this isn't the suburbs, where you are more likely to be murdered in your bedroom by someone you know.) So the Denver cops are about to cross the threshold into my building and the one guy holds up a cop-style flier featuring the mugshot of a young-ish black man. The cop says: Have you seen this guy? And I look at the picture and say no. Then I proceed to say a really horrible, crappy thing. At least it comes off that way, which is why I would like to track down those nice detectives and apologize to them in person. OK so this is what I say: I go, um, I hate to say this but this is pretty much the white building and that is the black building. And I point to the building next door. Now don't get me wrong. That sounded horrible, but WHAT I MEANT was that if you sent the Census Bureau in, they would find that my building is 100 percent white, and that the building next door is 98.5 percent black -- an elderly white woman with a yap dog accounts for the 1.5 percent non-black. Can you get me here? I totally did not mean to come off as the worst racist in the history of my block. I just meant that I could save them some time. They could go door to door in my building shielding their eyes or they could go to the other building -- as a matter of fact the one detective holding the flier was like, OK, yeah, we've got the wrong address it is 1544 and this is 1540. So they headed over to the other building. STILL I FELT LIKE SHIT ALL DAY LONG. I really want to apologize to them for the way that sounded. I wish I could take it back and say, OK, purely in terms of Census figures, you'd be better off at that building over there. Nah. No matter how I said it it would have sounded awful. I should have said: I have never seen him. You might consider that building next door as well as this building. Thank you and have a nice day, detectives.
See next post on Canada. I really hate Canada because my girlfriend and I got strip-searched at the border, but I do have to do the "Go Canada" post.
Jeanie