Words&Dirt

“In 1996 a SWAT team in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (population 39,102) burned down an entire apartment complex with a flash-bang they used during a drug raid.  Six police officers were injured and twenty-four people were left homeless.  Several of the officers were later cited for bravery.”

––Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, by Radley Balko, pg. 278

“Dellarobia thought of mad-scientist labs in the movies, bottles of things boiling over, and despaired at the gulf between her brain and all there was to know.”

––Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver, pg. 153