"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.“


-Robert Kennedy

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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

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