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...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.(in that cas...

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Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amou...

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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is...

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Police can only act on intelligence.

It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to buil...

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It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy r...

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He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden countr...

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Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and a...

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Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type...

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It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, n...

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When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your...

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In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of yo...

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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

The police are the public and the public are the police the police being only members of the public ...

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I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a pos...

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I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the sta...

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Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Office Peone looked at John and wondered what mental illness he had. The Seattle streets were filled...

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Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great advers...

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If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's ...

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I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit sho...

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There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could s...

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He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn't wa...

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I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citize...

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I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the facti...

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In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it...

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An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I s...

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I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

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Adolfo Bioy CasaresThe Invention of Morel

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is ...

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How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of t...

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Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving int...

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...

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Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual...

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David GraeberFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing dul...

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David GraeberThe Democracy Project: A History

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrif...

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Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all ...

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The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. ...

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Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty...

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It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h...

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...

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There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic ...

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Gore VidalDeath in the Fifth Position

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai...

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When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of per...

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I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could s...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than ...

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Hunter S. ThompsonAncient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson

I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more...

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They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful r...

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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...

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Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police pre...

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There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppres...

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The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusua...

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The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect...

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Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lo...

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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ...

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Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to...

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He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you nee...

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I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? A...

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No cop on earth would call his badge a government identification document. Cops don’t work for the g...

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They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen...

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They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words,...

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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station a...

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... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of phy...

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Max WeberThe Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation/Politics as a Vocation

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped F...

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