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Behind the Police: How The Police Declared War On All Of Us

Behind the Bastards

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What Smedley Butler Did to Philadelphia

Butler used the street lights to broadcast blink codes to officers about what crimes were taking place. He also set up a number of military style outposts to allow for better monitoring. Tactics were very successful in closing down a huge number of philadelphia spekiesies, but they were not successful in actually winning the war for prohibition. Those arrested for liquor infractions came before magistrates who released them for lack of evidence.

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