Police

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder.

Ironwood (Catalina, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #42)
Twenty Years Later
26 Beauties (Women's Murder Club, #26)
A Welcome Reunion
Those Empty Eyes
Revenge Prey (Lucas Davenport #36)
Calico
The Secrets We Hide (North Falls, #2)
The Crossroads (Joe Pickett, #26)
The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
The Orphanage by the Lake
The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)
Hart's Ridge (Hart's Ridge, #1)
Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
The Erkeley Shadows
Scavenger Hunt
The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2)
Twenty Years Later
Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)
Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
Death of an Officer (The DCI Frank Merlin Series)
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Simone Weil
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its ...more
Simone Weil

Ben Aaronovitch
It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.
Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

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