It sounds like its multiple apartments share utilities.
But electric heat is extremely expensive compared to gas, just about everywhere. So while they are bitching about gas, they are actually costing the others by using space heaters.
For normal employees yes, for cops in America? Nah he'll get unemployment and be quietly hit by another police department within six months if he doesn't go straight to ICE..
Hell he may have done this intentionally to up his ICE signing bonus.
Also using terms they can understand, many Americans were extremely anti Nazi during the 40s 50s and the US entire educational system spent decades highlighting Nazis are evil.
Many northern US schools barely touch on the native American atrocities or Jim Crow laws. I strongly suspect the Southern schools never mentioned them. So there's no frame of reference for them.
Back in 1800s America had native Americans (indigenous) people. While we were stealing their land and scalping them, we also stole their children to "Americanize" those "heathens"... Jim Crow laws were against freed slaves if I remember. Unless you're specifically looking, the US educational system down plays it obviously.
Keep in mind, that is in no way representative of actual pet names. Very likely not even those specific pets actual names...
The names were likely chosen by marketing folks.