“One can evade a danger that one recognizes,′ wrote historian Friedrich Zipfel, ’but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent, it could appear, search arrest. The worried citizen no longer knows whom he ought to trust.”

“One can evade a danger that one recognizes,′ wrote historian Friedrich Zipfel, ’but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent, it could appear, search arrest. The worried citizen no longer knows whom he ought to trust.”

— Erik Larson