The trouble with cops is not that they're dumb or crooked or tough, but that they think just being a cop gives them a little something they didn't have before. Maybe it did once, but not any more. They're topped by too many smart minds.

Red explains the shape of the local power structure to Marlowe on the boat.

— Red in Philip Marlowe #2 - Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler, 1940)

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