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[ineffabelle]

This:

me: the cops are already a predatory class
no one knows if they're going to rape, beat, electrocute or kill you in any encounter
and get away with it.

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Joseph Conrad

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.. pretty much nails it, over a century ago, in The Secret Agent. one character explains the police as ... protecting those who Have against those who don't.

.. but, sheesh, an amazing/stunning novel in every respect, 'specially in this madly obfuscated post.9/11 world with its increasingly laughable Victorian assumptions of "progress."