[a fool in paradise]

In fact, according to Maida, more than half the beer removed by the State Police was properly registered - but the cops couldn't find it on their lists because of "clerical errors" or "blatant ineptitude" between the police and the Liquor Control Board, with whom the officers were conferring by telephone.

Procedural crime. Meanwhile they let the crackhouses down the road in any direction go undisturbed.

The bar owners won't get violent as a crack addict or dope dealer might. And they have "$7,000" in beer so they should be good for upwards of $10,000 in revenue ticket fines.

Sometime the badge just belongs to the biggest gang in town.

[sadamico]

“Sometime the badge just belongs to the biggest gang in town.”

In a lot of places, the police have let themselves become tax collectors with guns.