Policing is about moving from the unknown to the known and then further—to the provable. - Ben Aaronovitch

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

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.”

He’d obviously wanted to tell someone about it for a long time and I was a convenient ear.
I get that a lot. Stephanopoulos calls it my secret weapon.
“It’s that vacant expression,” she said. “People just want to fill the empty void.”