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“Over-policing is driven in part by the law of supply and demand—police go where people ask them to go. To put it a little differently: Police don’t operate in a vacuum. They are paid by taxpayer dollars; they respond to the directives and incentives created by national, state, and municipal laws, policies, and political pressures; and in a day-to-day sense, they respond to whatever calls happen to come in over the 911 lines, whether those calls involve complaints about armed robberies or about disorderly conduct.”

Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City by Rosa Brooks
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