Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.
Police business is a hell of a problem. It__ a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there__ nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It__ a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there__ nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...
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