“Policing is one of those jobs that will always revolve around a meatspace hub, if only because you can’t build a cellblock in cyberspace.”

— Charles Stross , book Rule 34

Source: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 10, “Liz: Snowballing Hell” (p. 116)

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