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“In the buildup to the 1919 riot, for instance, Wells had implored the city to do something to punish white terrorists targeting black homes for bombing. As we have seen, they did nothing.”
― Simon Balto, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

“But representation is not the same thing as power, and the hiring of a few black officers was an ambiguous victory.”
― Simon Balto, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

“Carbon-fueled capitalism is a zombie system, voracious but sterile.”
― Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

“The dentist wiggled the drill from side to side as the prisoner writhed in pain. The officers pledged to have him do the same to every last tooth in the suspect’s head. The suspect confessed.”
― Simon Balto, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power