Given that he was writing in the late eighteenth century, I like to cut him slack. - Ben Aaronovitch

You know how some people work at being stupid?" she asked. "If you give them a clear, common sense choice they give it a lot of thought and then choose stupid.

I asked Reynolds if she could put the bodyguards on what we’d taken to calling the Unreality List of people that might be magical, members of the demi-monde or suspiciously weird.
“It would save ever so much time,” Reynolds had said when we set it up, “if we just added the population of Florida right at the start.”

We headed off to do some community outreach. This involves meeting people, listening to their stories and memorizing their names and faces in case you have to come back and arrest them at a later date.