It’s no fun looking down on people if you can’t let them know you’re above them. - Ben Aaronovitch

The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions.

Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.

It was already one of the hazards of being police that you became suspicious of the everyday. You didn’t have to spend much time on the job before realising that professional criminals are comparatively rare and that crime is something committed by ordinary people.