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I have some friends who work for the NYPD, and recently had a conversation that well to be honest shocked me. It dealt with the internal politics of the job. My friend X was saying, how he worked in narcotics in Harlem, and I was talking about how they cracked down on dealers. And he said they really do not if they got rid of the dealers they would get a new dealer, and if they got rid of all dealers the stats would go down. Stats down, less overtime. Now he is new to that division the low man on the team, and I asked if that was the policy and he said unofficially yes they just go after buyers a lot, otherwise cops would lose their jobs.

I was floored, by this idea. I know some cops must get kickbacks from criminal element, and this in one way may sort of help them justify it they are helping their fellow officers by looking the other way. Or perhaps this is a current idea for job preservation since Bloomberg has had each department over the past few years cut costs by 10%.

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Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.