“The police can live with looking corrupt, bullying, or tyrannical, but looking stupid is intolerable. It has a tendency to undermine public faith in the forces of Law and is deleterious to public order.”

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 4, “One-Tenth of My Ashes” (p. 64)

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