The challenge isn't just stopping bribes but confronting a system where every role is never what it seems: where cops are actually gangsters; bureaucrats are businessmen; state institutions serve private interests; and reformers are nothing of the kind.
It seems the cops may be getting their frame of reference from The Warriors because, at least according to Simon Fraser University criminology professor and gangs expert Robert Gordon, organized criminal groups in Canada haven't been operating like that in decades.
Let's do a quick status update: it seems the cops are still beating them up every day, Joey's still dragging around the Shithead surname and that upside down triangle face, and everyone who has anything other than replacement studs and a photo of a middle finger in their wallet is still a corporate fascist.
It seems that COP changes were maintained after the follow-up period, and PP and PTI decreased again in the follow-up period after an initial increase (end of intervention), as if the foot-ankle complex had learnt how to manage the more articulated roll-over process.
But when you're dark-skinned like me, it seems to give cops a full pass to disrespect you.
These days, it seems, all TV cops have to suffer, the grimness of what they investigate inevitably leaving its mark.
But while the DEA's report also addresses prescription pill abuse, which has fueled the opioid epidemic, it seems many local cops are still struggling to make the connection.
Not so long ago it seemed that cops and doctors were the only people who were always on call.
In the city's toughest neighborhoods, he said it seems as though the cops don't arrive to the scene of the crime until after it's been cleaned up and the ambulance has driven away.
This, it seems, is a major cop-out, given the scope of this book as announced by its title, and given the many more crucial issues afloat in the world of intelligence today.
