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 re… - Ben Aaronovitch

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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.

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Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.

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It’s one of those weird truths you learn early on as police that quite a high percentage of the public have all the survival instinct of a moth in a candle factory. They run the wrong way, they refuse to move, some will run toward the danger, and others will instantly whip out their phones and take footage.

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