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Most Read This Week Tagged "Police"

The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)

The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves, #1)

The Woman Left Behind (Misted Pines, #4)

The Dark Hours (Renée Ballard, #4; Harry Bosch, #23; Harry Bosch Universe, #36)

Lethal Prey (Lucas Davenport #35; Virgil Flowers #16)

The 24th Hour (Women’s Murder Club, #24)

21st Birthday (Women's Murder Club, #21)

23rd Midnight (Women’s Murder Club, #23)

The Laughing Dead (Steinbeck and Reed, #3)

Temptation Trails (The Haven Brothers, #3)

Echo Road (Mercy Kilpatrick, #9; Bree Taggert, #9)

Booked for Murder (An Old Juniper Bookstore Mystery, #1)

Veiled Justice (The Other Detective, #1)

Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

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Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

The Rule of Threes (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)

Hidden in Plain Sight (William Warwick, #2)

When You Are Mine (Philomena McCarthy, #1)

Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Mystic Justice (The Other Detective, #2)

Caution: Death at Work (DCI Evan Warlow #2)

An Enemy in the Village (Bruno, Chief of Police #18)

The Vampire and the Case of the Wayward Werewolf (The Portlock Paranormal Detective #1)

Dark Storm Rising (Kate Burkholder, #15.5)

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“ Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited suc Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited success to help the reduced forces of Czech dissent to stay nourished (and published). The most pregnant moment of that commitment was one that I managed to miss at the time: I passed an afternoon with Zdenek Mlynar, exiled former secretary of the Czech Communist Party, who in the bleak early 1950s in Moscow had formed a friendship with a young Russian militant with an evident sense of irony named Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev. In 1988 I was arrested in Prague for attending a meeting of one of Vaclav Havel's 'Charter 77' committees. That outwardly exciting experience was interesting precisely because of its almost Zen-like tedium. I had gone to Prague determined to be the first visiting writer not to make use of the name Franz Kafka, but the numbing bureaucracy got the better of me. When I asked why I was being detained, I was told that I had no need to know the reason! Totalitarianism is itself a cliché (as well as a tundra of pulverizing boredom) and it forced the cliché upon me in turn. I did have to mention Kafka in my eventual story. The regime fell not very much later, as I had slightly foreseen in that same piece that it would. (I had happened to notice that the young Czechs arrested with us were not at all frightened by the police, as their older mentors had been and still were, and also that the police themselves were almost fatigued by their job. This was totalitarianism practically yawning itself to death.) A couple of years after that I was overcome to be invited to an official reception in Prague, to thank those who had been consistent friends through the stultifying years of what 'The Party' had so perfectly termed 'normalization.' As with my tiny moment with Nelson Mandela, a whole historic stretch of nothingness and depression, combined with the long and deep insult of having to be pushed around by boring and mediocre people, could be at least partially canceled and annealed by one flash of humor and charm and generosity. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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“ Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ”
― Dr. Benjamin Spock

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