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When I was a cop me and my partner saw plenty of his handiwork. Yeah, we pulled his handiwork out a the water by the docks, we saw it in the bloody alleys, we saw it in cars burnt up on the side of the roads…
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A.G. Russo (Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss (O'Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. 2))
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Dale had driven for about a minute before seeing red and blue flashing through the night. Two police cars headed down the road toward him. He kept to the speed limit and stayed calm. The siren-blaring cop cars rushed passed him, one after the other, heading toward Amoral’s house.
Dale watched them in his rearview mirror. They didn’t stop or turn around. They just kept on going till they were out of sight.
Dale smirked and condescendingly said, “That’s right.
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Jasun Ether (The Beasts of Success)
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We live in, arguably, the most developed, powerful country in the world, yet we are still unable to find a way to keep corrupt cops from killing black men. Why is that?
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Carlos Wallace
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He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it
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Sierra D. Waters (Debbie.)
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Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they’re meant to protect?
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Louise Penny (How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9))
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There was no concept of good or bad within those two grey men that night, only green, as in currency they were soon to secure for these clandestine exploits.
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Locke Wood (Sunflowers & Scorched Earth: The History of American Vigilante Expression and The Found Works of B.L. Ashburn.)
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If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.
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Steven Magee
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The 'thin blue line' is nothing more than the no snitching policy found in any other criminal gang.
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Dane Whalen
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Corrupt governments run corrupt courts that protect corrupt cops.
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Steven Magee
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I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.
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Steven Magee
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The truth was that I didn’t know how I felt about my long-lost baby sister being in Ashland, much less the fact that she was a cop. A good one, at that. Somebody who actually tried to help people, who wanted to make a difference in a city as dirty and corrupt as Ashland—while I’d spent my entire adult life killing people for money. The idea that we shared the same DNA boggled the mind. Guess there was something to that nurture stuff after all.
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Jennifer Estep (Venom (Elemental Assassin, #3))
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When I looked around the neighborhood, I found out that kids wasn’t the only crooks. We was surrounded by crooks, and plenty of ’em was guys that were supposed to be legit, like the landlords and the storekeepers and the politicians and cops on the beat. All of ‘em was stealin’ from somebody. And we had the real pros, the old Dons from the old country, with their big black cars and mustaches to match. We used to make fun of them behind their backs, but our parents were scared to death of them. The only thing is, we knew they was rich, and rich was what counted, because the rich got away with anythin'.
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Martin A. Gosch (Last Testament of Lucky Luciano: The Mafia Story in His Own Words)
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Not all cops are bent, but all departments have bent cops.
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Abhijit Naskar (Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel)
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When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be on their way to you.
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Steven Magee
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There were times that I may have broken the rules for justice.
I may have done things that were wrong but it was for the right reasons.
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Pete Thron (One Under: Face to face with the violent offenders he put away, can a New York City police officer survive the rigors of a corrupt prison? (End Of Tour Series Book 2))
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When good cops are lying for bad cops, they also become bad cops through association.
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Steven Magee
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If the police enforced the law, there would be thousands of police officers in jail!
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Steven Magee
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Blatant cover-ups are the business model for most police internal affairs departments.
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Steven Magee
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The police cover-ups are blatant.
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Steven Magee
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Power creates temptations, and that is true even for the smallest increments of power: the power of the building inspector, of the customs official, of the cop at the traffic stop. It took a lot of work by a lot of people over a long time to build even America's highly imperfect standards of public integrity. Undoing that work would be a far easier task. Corruption is the resting state of pubic affairs; integrity a painstaking, unceasing struggle against cultural inertia and political gravity.
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David Frum (Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic)
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And what is corruption, I ask you? Who gets hurt if a poor cop gets a new car or a week’s vacation in Kenya for letting the Baltic girls earn a living in peace, down on the docks? I mean, where’s the harm in that?”
Police Officer on Radio Fake 112.8 MHz
In The Shadow of Sadd.
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Steen Langstrup (In The Shadow of Sadd)
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In the papers, columnists accused communist foreigners of corrupting Mexico’s youth and attempting to destroy the nation. The cops were innocent, lawful citizens doing their jobs. Perhaps it wasn’t true, but it made Maite’s skin prickle with dread, because no one wanted a repeat of ’68.
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Velvet Was the Night)
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Bow not, my brave officer of the law, before the soul-crunching pressure of corruption - light up the nuclear furnace of responsibility and justice that sleeps dormant within you and crush all corruption to ashes - only then you'll become the very embodiment of courage, conscience and order in the human society.
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Abhijit Naskar (Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law)
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My brave, conscientious officers of the law, if you want people to trust you, don't use the phrase "police are your friends", for it only makes you sound authoritarian, egotistical and condescending - instead, remind them "police are humans too" - acknowledge your mistakes and work towards correcting them, so that you can truly become the Caretaker of People, which is the very definition of COP.
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Abhijit Naskar (Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent)
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why do we talk about police brutality like it is about race? At its core, police brutality is about power and corruption. Police brutality is about the intersection of fear and guns. Police brutality is about accountability. And the power and corruption that enable police brutality put all citizens, of every race, at risk. But it does not put us at risk equally, and the numbers bear that out. My fear, as a black driver, is real. The fact is that black drivers are 23 percent more likely to be pulled over than white drivers1, between 1.5 and 5 times more likely to be searched (while shown to be less likely than whites to turn up contraband in these searches),2 and more likely to be ticketed3 and arrested4 in those stops. This increase in stops, searches, and arrests also leads to a 3.5–4 times higher probability that black people will be killed by cops (this increase is the same for Native Americans interacting with police, a shamefully underreported statistic). Even when we aren’t arrested or killed, we are still more likely to be abused and dehumanized in our stops. A 2016 review of a thirteen-month period showed that Oakland police handcuffed 1,466 black people in nonarrest traffic stops, and only 72 white people5, and a 2016 study by the Center for Policing Equity found that blacks were almost 4 times more likely to be subject to force from police—including force by hand (such as hitting and choking), pepper spray, tazer, and gun—than white people.6
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Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race)
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corruption. Is corruption just a matter of legality, of financial irregularity and bribery, or is it the currency of a social transaction in an egregiously unequal society, in which power continues to be concentrated in the hands of a smaller and smaller minority? Imagine, for example, a city of shopping malls, on whose streets hawking has been banned. A hawker pays the local beat cop and the man from the municipality a small bribe to break the law and sell her wares to those who cannot afford the prices in the malls. Is that such a terrible thing? In the future will she have to pay the Lokpal representative, too? Does the solution to the problems faced by ordinary people lie in addressing the structural inequality or in creating yet another power structure that people will have to defer to?
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Arundhati Roy (My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction)
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But the dynamics of Mexican cartels have also developed in distinct ways from Colombia. Mexico has seven major cartels—Sinaloa, Juárez, Tijuana, La Familia, Beltrán Leyva, the Gulf, and the Zetas—so it is hard to decapitate them all at once. When leaders such as Osiel Cárdenas are taken out, their organizations have only become more violent, as rival lieutenants fight to become top dog. Groups such as the Zetas and Familia have also become powerful because of their brand names rather than the reputation of their capos. Even if Zetas leader Heriberto Lazcano, the Executioner, is arrested, the Zetas will likely continue as a fearsome militia.
Whether the cartels will get weaker or not, everybody agrees that Mexico needs to clean up its police to move forward. Different corrupt cops firing at each other and working for rival capos is nobody’s vision of progress. Such police reform is of course easier said than done. Mexican presidents have talked about it for years, going through numerous cleanups and reorganization of forces, only to create new rotten units. A central problem is the sheer number of different agencies. Mexico has several federal law enforcement departments, thirty-one state authorities, and 2,438 municipal police forces.
However, in October 2010, Calderón sent a bill to be approved by Congress that could make a real difference to the police. His controversial proposal was to absorb all Mexico’s numerous police forces into one unified authority like the Colombians have. It is a colossal reform with a huge amount of technical problems. But such a reform could be a key factor in pulling Mexico away from the brink. Even if drugs are eventually legalized, a single police force would be a better mechanism to fight other elements of organized crime, such as kidnapping.
The approach has many critics. Some argue it would only streamline corruption. But even that would be a better thing for peace. At least corrupt cops could be on the same side instead of actively gunning each other down. Others argue an all-powerful force would be authoritarian. Maybe. But any such force would still be controlled by democratic government. The spiderweb of different police forces only worked because one party ran everything. In democracy, this arrangement needs reform. If a crucial cause of the breakdown in Mexico has been the fragmentation of government power, then a way forward could be to unify its police under one command. Some of the fundamental problems and core solutions lie in Mexico’s institutions.
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Ioan Grillo (El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency)
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Letter to Law Enforcement
Every field of human endeavor has its own unique problem. The problem with science is lack of warmth. The problem with philosophy is lack of empathy. The problem with religion is lack of reason. The problem with politics is lack of expertise. And the problem with law enforcement is not corruption, but an absolute denial of that corruption, and until you acknowledge that many of your officers are corrupt and prejudiced to the neck, you can never in a million years build a healthy relationship with the people.
Prejudices thrive on biases, and biases are a part of our psyche - of the human psyche, and no matter what we do, we cannot erase them from our mind - but we do have the ability to be aware of them, and only when we are aware of them, can we choose whether or not to be driven by them. However, when you don't even acknowledge that you have biases, that you are filled with prejudice, then you are inadvertently choosing not to accept the root of all the mistakes committed by you and your fellow officers in the line of duty.
A civilian may choose to stay biased and prejudiced all their life, but you as a defender of the people - as a defender of their rights, their security, their serenity - do not have the luxury to let your biases, to let your prejudices come in the way of your duty, for the moment they do, you the keeper of law and order, turn into the very cause of disorder.
Therefore, it's not enough for an officer of the law to have combat training and legal knowledge, it is also imperative that you learn about biases, that you learn about the fears, insecurities and instinctual tendencies of the human mind. An officer of the law without an understanding of biases, is like a ten year old with a knife - they may feel that they have power, but they have no clue as to the real life implications of that power. Remember my friend, power that doesn't help the people, is not power but pandemic.
Your combat training doesn't make you a police officer, for when enraged even an ordinary civilian can take down ten police officers - your knowledge of law doesn't make you an officer of the law, for when pushed even a mediocre college student can defeat an army of elite legal minds - what makes you a police officer is your absolute acceptance of your role in society - the role of selfless servants. Once you accept the role of selfless servants wholeheartedly, people are bound to trust you.
My brave, conscientious officers of the law, if you want people to trust you, don't use the phrase "police are your friends", for it only makes you sound authoritarian, egotistical and condescending - instead, remind them "police are humans too" - acknowledge your mistakes and work towards correcting them, so that you can truly become the Caretaker of People, which is the very definition of COP.
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Abhijit Naskar (Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent)
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I suggested that instead of his abstinence disqualifying his say on the American situation, perhaps he had gone “full dissident” and recognized the accepted framework of sociopolitical involvement—the ride-alongs with cops, the listening to candidates owned by money, the insistence that deliberate, institutional racism is just a misunderstanding still unsorted—and found them useless. I further argued that if he saw an unredeemed, corrupt system as the problem, there was no reason for him to trust in it and even less reason to expect him to participate in it.
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Howard Bryant (Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field)
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An awareness of police misconduct on my 911 calls that was covered up by internal affairs is what prompted me to become a police corruption researcher.
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Steven Magee
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It is well known to police corruption researchers that police internal affairs does not work.
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Steven Magee
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Imagine if we stopped handing gangsters a £7 billion annual war chest with which to terrorise our communities and corrupt our enforcement agencies.
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Neil Woods (Good Cop, Bad War)
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Since the mid-1990s, the primary tool to reform law enforcement has been the consent decree: a court-enforced agreement requiring a police department to overhaul itself under the supervision of external “monitors.” This legalistic mechanism, authorized by Congress in the wake of the outrage over Rodney King’s beating by Los Angeles cops in 1991 and the devastating riots following their acquittal a year later, focuses on reducing uses of force, police shootings, racial profiling, choke holds, and more. The results have been distinctly mixed.
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Ali Winston (The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland)
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The BPD had also, without a warrant, raided a vacant home next to the lot where Suiter was shot—and found evidence in a completely unrelated killing that had occurred a year earlier.
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Justin Fenton (We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption)
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hate Nairobi. It’s dreary and chilly and always rains, and the high crime rate doesn’t help. They’ll pull a gold chain right off your neck in broad daylight and there’s nothing anyone can do. The cops are more corrupt than the thieves. We call it Nairobbery.
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Kenneth Cain (Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone)
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Randall was a good cop in a bad town, an honest man in a system so corrupt the Borgias would’ve felt moral outrage.
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Robert Crais (Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe)
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718 A vivid memory of mine is a 1979 viewing of a late night rerun of the ABC TV movie Hot Rod (a.k.a. Rebel of the Road). It’s the story of an outcast rodder, his struggles with a corrupt small-town police force, and an eventual drag strip showdown with an Olds 4-4-2 sponsored by the Munn’s Root Beer company. At the beginning of the flick, the hero drives a 1965 Coronet sedan, presumably an A990. After the cops force him off the road, totaling the Dodge, he swaps the Hemi into a 1941 Willys. You probably remember the movie now. But has anyone noticed that he steals a replacement Hemi out of an AMC Matador cop car? I sure did! It stands as yet another tribute to the mythical legacy of Hemi-powered cop cars on TV and in the movies.
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Steve Magnante (Steve Magnante's 1001 Muscle Car Facts)
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I have no naive notions of good and evil. While Kentucky is not the deep south, there is enough of that type of outlaw mentality in the rural areas that Hollywood movies based on corrupt backwoods cops have some credibility. Making someone disappear in the country is actually far easier to do than in a place like New Jersey. Lots of heavily wooded areas and farms to dispose of a body, should one happen to need to. The look in his eyes had scared me. There was clearly something behind them, something I didn’t want to ever see in the full light of day. Things of nightmares. There are places, dark damp hidden places, where things like that dwell, and to look upon them would drive a person mad with fear.
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John (ronin) Evans (Midnight Falls)
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I shoot cops with a video camera.
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Steven Magee
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- Today we hire a Paki, this was it, she made her bets, a huge Pakistani guy will beat her, rob her and rape her, tonight, Tommy!! Fu…ing bitch she is going to die now!! – Ready made (premeditated) or instant: plans. (Solicitation of murder for hire.) Organized crimes. Mafia. Gang. Mob. “Coincidence.” (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) International. Juicy ideas and plans. Murder. Revealed. Slipped out. Family. Business. Drugs. Past. Nazi. Emotional. Reaction. True. Rare. Impression. Eyes. Blazing. Evil. No Mask.
- No way Martina, calm down Lil Kim! That's out of question. Are you out of your mind?
- Nononono, f..k you too why do you defending her?!
- What, Martina!?!? What are you talking about?! And stop moving, stay still!! Hold your hand up!
- We hire a paki!
- No we don’t! Stop moving your arm!! Let me stop the bleeding! Martina I am not defending her, she just got me lynched for no reason with a lie, I am pretty mad at her, trust me, I’m in pain.
- So we hire a paki!
- No we don’t!!
- So I hire a paki! I don’t need your money! F..k her! I hire two pakistani guys!! She gets it now, Tommy!
- Nooo!
- What no? F..k you too, Tommy!!! I hire a paki or two!
- What?! No, you don’t do shit! Stop!! Stop calling me Tommy! Who the f..k told you to call me the way my mother called me when I was a kid and you weren’t born yet?
- Pakis will rape her and rob her and beat her up!!
- Jesus Christ, you are crazy!! Get back to Earth! Right now! Martina!! Maybe Sabrina is a f…g nasty criminal, a bad person but she deserves a lawyer she can stick up in her butt, she is going to rot in jail this time finally or she can pay us, a lot!
- No no no this was it, it was enough of her, no more court house, f…g joke!!! – There was lethal rage in her eyes. I felt like if I convince her to not hire a Pakistani or two to kill Sabrina then she will kill me on the spot instead just to calm her rage. It was so absurd.
- Don’t you move your f…g hand! I am not telling you again to calm the f..k down and stop moving around. And listen to me. I am not telling you again to forget about hiring Pakistanis, you idiot!! Are you this f…g stupid? She will be held accountable for her crimes, Martina, soon, on court. Finally.
- No court, this was it, she is done!!
- No Martina, we can’t do that, we are not criminals, Martina to hire to kill!! “Were you this f…g stupid before” we got together?! Forget the Paki hitmans!!
- I know a lot of Pakistanis don’t you worry about that. – She almost had cut open her veins above her wrist and she began to realize it but she was still raging.
- Jesus Christ. What the f..k are you talking about? Get back to reality young lady before I smack you once really to save your f…g life from yourself!
- You are defending her!
- No! F..k her! You are just f….g stupid Martina!! You listen to me before I smack you instead of three of your weak parents and your big brother. The cops catch the Pakistani in this tiny town so quickly you won’t have time to blink, you go down with him. Think. Use your f…g head finally. Do you really want to revenge something? Think then. Before you get yourself killed or jailed you idiot and me as well. Time for you to listen to me finally in Europe, young lady after an entire f…g year of trouble!!
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Tomas Adam Nyapi (BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA)
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By 1950, American policing was at a crossroads. It could go on as it had for a hundred years, inefficient and often corrupt, or it could adopt the kind of professional management style advocated by reformers. At least, those appeared to be the choices at the time. As it turned out, postwar policing would be dominated by discussions far beyond how to make cops more honest, polite and efficient. Instead it would be caught up in large social questions involving race relations and what constituted the fair administration of justice.
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Thomas A. Reppetto (American Police, A History: 1945-2012: The Blue Parade, Vol. II)
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Beware of corporate government cops.
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Steven Magee
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Corrupt and incompetent cops are making the world a dangerous place for good and honest police officers.
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Steven Magee
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All this may seem trivial. But in 1997 such corruption at the bottom end of the tourism industry helped to allow a band of heavily armed jihadists to breeze their way through numerous police and army checkpoints leading to the Hatshepsut Temple, near Luxor. There they proceeded to massacre dozens of tourists and Egyptians before escaping into the desert unhindered. Before the attack, the priority of many local soldiers and cops had been to extract bribes from locals working with tour groups, smoke cigarettes, and sleep away the long hot summer afternoons in the backs of their vans.
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John R. Bradley (Inside Egypt: The Road to Revolution in the Land of the Pharaohs)
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Carl Holt,” I mused, fighting to keep the surprise from my voice. “Oh, I remember him from the news. Wasn’t he that corrupt cop who was killed with his buddy, the Satan-worshipping porno director?
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Craig Schaefer (Redemption Song (Daniel Faust, #2))
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A trader will target you if you wish. It is up to your decision to become a customer.
Corrupted civil servants will target you if you have to apply to them for a matter. The corrupted cops and intelligence officers will stand at your door with fake evidence and false witnesses, as soon as they are convinced that you have some money. But at least you can get rid of them by bribery.
A killer will target you if he wants to.
A terrorist will target you if you fit his purpose.
But a racist will absolutely target you. You will be targeted as an enemy if you are a member of the minority, even if you are in your mother's womb. Because racists target the whole of humanity except those who follow them! And those who follow them are to be compelled to kill or impelled to be killed in the battlefield.
-To be tried as a Jew-
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Jeyhun Aliyev Silo
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They can take your gun and they can take your badge. They can never take away the fact that you are a cop. You just chose to police the police.
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Austin Handle
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It used to be good cop, bad cop. Now it is more like corrupt cop, killer cop.
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Steven Magee
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Sunny Skies Shady Characters: Cops, Killers, and Corruption in the Aloha State,
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Robert T. Kiyosaki (Who Stole My Pension?: How You Can Stop the Looting)
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Do you trust the police? I do not.
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Steven Magee
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Witnessing the incompetence of the police has made me scared to call them!
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Steven Magee
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Corrupt police officers being protected by a corrupted internal affairs is a normal aspect of government.
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Steven Magee
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Whenever I hear of a police officer being killed, my assumption is they were probably corrupt and deserved it.
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Steven Magee
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Some members of public are killing police officers that were probably corrupt.
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Steven Magee
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I have no sympathy for corrupt police officers that are killed in their jobs.
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Steven Magee
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I have no sympathy for murdered police officers, as I view it as a form of justice for the corrupt.
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Steven Magee
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The police are the civilian side of the military.
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Steven Magee
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The more I research the police, the more it reinforces my beliefs that they are shady and potentially dangerous!
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Steven Magee
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The last thing a police officer wants to hear: I am calling 911 for a police supervisor.
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Steven Magee
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The safest assumption you can make with the police is it is staffed by bad cops.
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Steven Magee
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Whatever a police officer has done to you, it is likely they have done far worse to other people.
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Steven Magee
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The actions you take during a police harassment incident may determine if you live or die.
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Steven Magee
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Whatever a police officer has done to you, it is likely they have done far worse to the people that came before you.
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Steven Magee
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If a strange police officer is blatantly harassing you, you may be about to be seriously injured or die.
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Steven Magee
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Pray for the police, as they are so lost.
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Steven Magee
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A government that is running corrupt police departments is calling itself ‘The Greatest Nation On Earth’.
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Steven Magee
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If police internal affairs worked, the public would not be video recording corrupt police officers.
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Steven Magee
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I do research police corruption and I try my best not to get involved with the police on a daily basis!
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Steven Magee
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As a police corruption researcher, I have had encounters with police officers that have been involved with killing people.
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Steven Magee
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Corrupt cops had a way of creating much more danger than anyone else.
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Peter O'Mahoney (The Southern Killer (Joe Hennessy Legal Thriller #3))
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I am always surprised that a corrupt police department will be interviewed on camera!
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Steven Magee
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, Kimberlé Crenshaw, editor Race and Police Brutality: Roots of an Urban Dilemma, Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., Luis J. Rodriguez Brotherhood of Corruption: A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling, Juan Antonio Juarez Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, Kristian Williams Don’t Shut Me Out!: Some Thoughts on How to Move a Group of People From One Point to Another OR Some Basic Steps Toward Becoming a Good Political Organizer!, James Forman
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Mark Oshiro (Anger Is a Gift)
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I will not get on a train with people I have assessed as harassing me.
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Steven Magee
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got to know quite a few politicians. They were a pretty lively bunch, no more or less corrupt than schoolteachers, newspaper reporters, cops, or doctors. Anyway, it didn’t take much exposure to politics for me to realize that there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous. But in the short run, if you find a guy on top of your hometown clock tower with a cheap Chinese semiauto assault-weapon lookalike, that guy will be one of Corbeil’s buddies, dreaming of black helicopters and socialist tanks massing on the Canadian border, preparing to pollute America’s vital fluids.
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John Sandford (The Devil's Code (Kidd & LuEllen, #3))
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Hiring and paying ones own regulators is as easy as hiring a private rent-a-cop. In Canada, for about $100 million, the financial industry can fund any of our Securities Commissions, and the ability to then obtain exemptions to the law from the regulator, is by itself worth hundreds of billions. Just ONE exemption to the law, can earn billions. Capturing and funding regulators is the simply best (but corrupt) investment any industry can make. Another example comes to us from Boeing in late 2019, with the 737 Max, and the news that Boeing’s influence over the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ) was powerful enough to allow Boeing itself to legally approve its own aircraft, which is like being able to mark your own exams…(or print your own money).
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Larry Elford (Farming Humans: Easy Money (Non Fiction Financial Murder Book 1))
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Cops and crooks, in Hong Kong at least, were cut from the same cloth.
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Desmond Shum (Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China)
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Having come of age in Bronzeville, Mom had seen urban renewal several times over. She’d known this geography back when the area teemed with tenement housing, cold water flats, and kitchenettes. She had moved her family into Lawless around the time the Ida B. Wells Homes had begun its slide. The city’s housing authority had stopped screening applicants as it once had, and not long afterward it would get rid of its on-site janitorial staff. It simply stopped demanding of itself and its residents the things required to maintain a healthy and humane development. Later still, residents would have to contend with dysfunctional policing practices and crooked cops. The acclaimed investigative reporter Jamie Kalven, a dear friend, would write extensively about a team of corrupt Chicago officers who operated for years in the Ida B. Wells housing project and others. Then the world would look at what ails Chicago, particularly its violence, and pretend to wonder how it happened and how to fix it.
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Dawn Turner (Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood)
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For all y'all talking about "we can't have lawlessness": What do you call it when cops murder without consequence? When a mayor violates the municipal code? Shouldn't the people in power be held to highest level of accountability when it comes to following the law?
(7/1/2020 on Twitter)
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Nikkita Oliver
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The police are still corrupt and incompetent.
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Steven Magee
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Browder told a Russian lawyer, Sergey Magnitsky, who worked for a Moscow-based law firm called Firestone and Duncan, to follow the trail. It turned out the investment companies were being illegally signed over by the cops to petty criminals, who would then ask for tax rebates on the companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which were then granted by corrupt tax officials, signed off on by the same cops who had taken the documents in the first place, and wired to two banks owned by a convicted fraudster, an old friend of the aforementioned cops and tax officials. Officially the tax officials and cops only earned a few thousand a year, but they had property worth hundreds of thousands, drove Porsches, and went on shopping trips to Harrods in London. And this was happening year after year. The biggest tax fraud scheme in history. Magnitsky thought he had caught a few bad apples.
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Peter Pomerantsev (Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia)
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Firestone still smiles when he relates this, playing out each line of the dialogue in Americanized, but nearly perfect, Russian. And he tells me of the time he had to hide out in a government hospital to hide from corrupt cops (they could grab him anywhere apart from a hospital full of ministers); and when his first office was raided by thugs working for his neighbor and his staff were handcuffed to the furniture and threatened at knifepoint; or when he had to fly to New York and buy up all the bugging equipment at the Spy store to give to the antifraud squad in Moscow so they would have the equipment with which to bust other bent cops trying to extort money from him.
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Peter Pomerantsev (Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia)
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It’s important, Lemuel.” He took another look and shook his head. “What’d this guy do?” he asked. “Helped plant cocaine on some Cambodians so their vehicle and cash could be confiscated.” “I ain’t following you.” “He’s a cop. You see him again, you let me know.” Lemuel leaned back in his chair and looked out at the road, suddenly disconnected from me and a conversation involving a corrupt white police officer. “Lemuel?” I said. “Got to clean my li’l house now. Dust keep blowing out of the yard t’rew the screen, dirtying up my whole house. Just cain’t keep it clean, no matter what I do. See you another time, Dave.” WE LIVE IN the New South. Legal segregation has slipped into history; the Klan has moved west, into white supremacist compounds, where they feel safe from the people whom they fear; and in Mississippi black state troopers ticket white motorists. But memories can be long, fear is fear, and race is at the heart of virtually every political issue in the states of the Old Confederacy, particularly in the realignment of the two national political parties. As I drove back to New Iberia, the fields of early sugar cane rippling in the breeze, the buttercups blooming along the rain ditches, I wondered about the memories of violence and injustice that my friend Lemuel Melancon would probably never share with me. But they obviously lived inside him, and I knew that as a white man it was presumptuous of me to ask that he set aside the cautionary instincts that had allowed him to be a survivor.
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James Lee Burke (Crusader's Cross (Dave Robicheaux, #14))
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WITHOUT THE BIG TITLES and the national security bureaucracy’s legalistic self-defense mechanisms, the story was pretty straightforward: The Clintons hired a bunch of con men who got their dirty cop friends to frame Trump. The press and a corrupt prosecutor handled the cover-up.
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Lee Smith (The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History)
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The job of a cop is to invest God's fear in human not to invest human's fear in God
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P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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This corruption has become systemic, a way of doing business. Cops make money by shaking down anyone they can.
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Paul Theroux (On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey)
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In 1930s America, it was the stories of police corruption that really destroyed public support for Prohibition. My instinct is that if the public were to ever learn just how often current police forces are forced to shrug and say well, how can this not happen? then support for drug prohibition would disappear just as quickly.
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Neil Woods (Good Cop, Bad War)
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Two kinds of cops eat their gun: the corrupt ones and the ones who let the dead lay claim upon the quick.
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James Lee Burke (The New Iberia Blues (Dave Robicheaux #22))
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Nowadays, people who need to maintain law and order behave like terrorists to plunge their flight into common man's building, the policeman
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P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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Tension ratchets up in every muscle of her body. "What are you going to do with that?" she asks, her voice barely a whisper. The man who meets Tessa's gaze isn't a police officer anymore. He's a father who has had something precious stolen from him. "Whatever I have to do.
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Eliza Maxwell (The Caretakers)
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Think of the savage in your society as your spoiled child and step up as a concerned and conscientious parent to discipline the child. Remember, a bigoted president is your child that must be disciplined - a prejudiced cop is your child that must be disciplined - a reckless celebrity is your child that must be disciplined.
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Abhijit Naskar (No Foreigner Only Family)
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I remember the road to Hadjout, lined with fields whose crops weren’t destined for us, and the naked sun, and the other travelers on the dusty bus. The oil fumes nauseated me, but I loved the virile, almost comforting roar of the engine, like a kind of father that was snatching us, my mother and me, out of an immense labyrinth made up of buildings, downtrodden people, shantytowns, dirty urchins, aggressive cops, and beaches fatal to Arabs. For the two of us, the city would always be the scene of the crime, or the place where something pure and ancient was lost. Yes, Algiers, in my memory, is a dirty, corrupt creature, a dark, treacherous man-stealer.
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Kamel Daoud (The Meursault Investigation)
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You know that only by ridding your department of the bad cops will the good cops ever shed the stigma placed upon them.
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Randy Ganther (Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System)
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Other things being even loosely equal, in a situation where no one should be arrested – meaning no one is in imminent danger of being sliced and diced – the one who calls the cops is the one most likely to be collared.
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Randy Ganther (Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System)
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London town. What a city! It’s a Dick Whittington’s cat’s meow – correct, corruptible. It purrs, plays the tune of non-violence without the cops and robbers guns. A nicely tuned night-sticked society that has it made because it’s lost the false bigness of empired emptiness. Love this town!” (By David S. Burcat)
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Joel Burcat (Whiz Kid)