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The invention of the police is like the invention of race; memory and history have conspired to make the recent seem eternal. And yet both are recent innovations. (p 254 "Abolish Police Unions")

— Adam Serwer The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America (2021)

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