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Police
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175 Police. He chose the police—always singular but collective—to discover him because the officers were not friends or relatives but impersonal operatives. Their experience and training would equip them to manage his body, disfigured by a wound. Seeing violence and death is the job of the police. That’s why we pay for their patrol, to come across us in our upheaval, twisted and mangled. Joel sheltered any who knew him from such unrest. See Cassanego. ...