Jim

“Cops are idealists wrapped in a shell of cynicism. The nature of the work requires self-protection: gallows humor in the face of horrible things; mistrust in the face of lies from suspects and even victims on the one side, and sometimes, they feel, from the bosses on the other.”
― Bill Bratton, The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America

“When you think little of yourself, everyone else’s opinion of you becomes more important than your own.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel

“Do you not find consciousness alone to be the most exhilarating thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I—we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“During my first term as NYPD commissioner, Sharpton had functioned largely as a sharp-tongued publicity-seeking political gadfly,”
― Bill Bratton, The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America