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"The only way you can evict or do anything like that is if the person who owns the apartment is convicted of a felony. So the Bedford Pines guys just went to the police department and said: 'We want you to police in here, and we're going to give you a section of Bedford Pines to actually have office space. And I want you to lock up as many people as possible so we can make these apartments vacant and we can knock 'em down.'

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"It dawned o n me that the entire system, the entire thing, was just a shitty mafia system. If you tried to do a good job and say, 'I'm going to be a good cop, and I'm going to obey commands,' they would abandon you, charge you, leave you behind, and not even think twice. If you didn't obey the rules, then they were gonna charge you for that. And if you tried to remain quiet and do your job, you are going to be a piece of modern-day redlining that way, too. There was no way that I could exist and feel good about it. And because I didn't have to-and that's the privilege part-I just decided not to."

-- Tom Gissler, in "The Cop Who Quit Instead of Helping to Gentrify Atlanta" (byline: Tom Gissler as told to Laura Thompson), Mother Jones, 2020-09-14