" There are only two kinds of police systems, Sanford, when you look at it historically. The kind that exists to uphold the law and to treat everybody equally under the law, and the kind that exists to serve private interest. Your idea of a useful police force is the second kind—a police force that will lay off your friends and bear down hard on your enemies, a force of strikebreakers and bully boys, a Swiss Guard for the elite. "

― Ross Macdonald , Blue City