Blacks protected by police and militia bought provisions during the riot. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were no such officers, and whenever I saw the police it meant that something had already gone wrong. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her keening was so loud and continuous that Fish worried the neighbors were going to think he was harming her and call the police. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the crowds outside were even larger, the police more tense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filed my complaint with the police department and tried to forget about the incident, but I couldn't. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mounted police launched cavalry charges into the massed strikers, swinging at them with batons. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was almost certain that the police would not be aware of this, as they rarely kept track of when bans ended. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone called the police even though according to the store owner, there weren’t any problems. And when the police got there—” Daddy’s voice breaks and he runs a hand over his head. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Only this time, a police officer, who looks barely older than me, stands a couple feet behind him. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Both these mosques were under continuous police guard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cas looked down at the gun in her hand as her mother yammered about firefighters and police officers and some friend of Dad’s who worked in the mayor’s office. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Would Lucky get Salvador into trouble with the police here? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The gathering outside the Tribune included businessmen, clerks, traveling salesmen, stenographers, police officers, and at least one barber. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If Mamá tried to leave the country to come get us, she could get in trouble with the police, and that’s something I couldn’t live with. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“If you’re worried, we can always ask the police to beef up the patrol around my house. And we have an alarm system since my dad is totally anxious about how quiet it is here.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The owner of the houses—and, therefore, technically, of me—was the one who’d called the police. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn't know if she was talking about the colored people or the police. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In a critical sense, the police officers whom Klinger describes performed better because their senses narrowed: that narrowing allowed them to focus on the threat in front of them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There is a police car parked in the driveway of my house when Dell Duke turns onto my street. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the souvenir picture and said that she’d hand it over to the police, just in case it was of some use. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Possibly a gang member, say police, though his family has come forward to refute that claim. It seems there are more questions than answers in this story, Carl." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her voice quaked like it had in the police station. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The police had blocked off the street; the crowd’s response to the speeches urging an end to the British mandate and the establishment of a Jewish state had been overwhelming. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She gestured back toward the police station, and he saw that she was right. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Surely the police would be along soon to take Mr. Kendall away once and for all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Profound racial injustice occurs when minority police officers follow the rules. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe he was going to go to the police. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police officer looks at the ID card and then at Chantal and back at the card. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A grand jury would have to decide if the police had enough evidence to try Guiteau for his crime. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The police have lit flares along the perimeter of the scene and are instructing cars in both directions to turn back, the road is closed. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bought us Pringles and Peanut M&Ms for dinner from the hospital vending machines, and my sister and I told the police it was an accident. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Hillbrow police station looks exactly like every other police station in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The police officer has one eye on Max as he listens to the man reporting a missing stuffed animal. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘The police are looking for him. And now it’s all over the TV.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is a matter for the police," I say, holding firm. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He could identify police outboards at a distance of a quarter mile. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The man says he’s going off duty now, he’ll take us to the police barracks where he has to report anyway, and they’ll see what can be done. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But a careful analysis of the facts shows that the innovative policing strategies probably had little effect on this huge decline. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I do. I mean, I don’t go to the police, but I go into London, the way I used to, at the same time and everything, so that she ... so that she won’t know.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes! You had a responsibility to Ginny, and to her mother. You have no idea how worried she was! She was ready to call the police!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“At any rate you will report to the police at Montreux.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"The police have a place where they hold them and then auction them off." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Haitians had been hopeful after Baby Doc Duvalier and his secret police had been chased from power, yet the military leaders of the new junta were even more brutal. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This approach must go beyond the rhetoric of “community policing” to a method of engagement between and among people in the community that promotes trust, healing, restorative justice, and reparations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m going to go round to the police station to come clean. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court shackles the police, compounds confusion in the legislatures of the states, and turns loose murderers and rapists to repeat their evil deeds upon the innocent and law-abiding members of society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But being a kid and worrying that the police might cut your head off is something else entirely. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

‘I mean really lost. The police are looking for him. It was just after you came up to us and gave us that ticket. Remember?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police searched the park, but found nothing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Complaining to police of potential violence once more, the packers were successful in having the parade permit denied. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In Hardwick’s eyes, “The police, protected by their helmets, are frightened and confused by these seizures of happiness.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half my mind told me that Tom might be a police informer. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was always nervous around police officers, and I never understood why. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Basically, I had to show up at the police station every Tuesday and Thursday for a month to have a computer “chat” with a resident of the Maple Grove Nursing Home somewhere across the state. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only minutes after Mr. Boston hung up, four police cars sped up and screeched to a stop outside the phone booth. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We dove to the ground, and remained there as mounted police galloped into the crowd, smashing people with batons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived near the vicinity of the police station, they heard the wailing first. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Internal conflict resolution within states has become increasingly formalized by laws, a judiciary, and police. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I asked if she expected that the police officer who had shot Prince would be charged. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dina works as a dispatcher at the Spruce Harbor police station, and as far as Molly can see there isn’t much to stress over—a few drunk drivers, the occasional black eye, petty thefts, accidents. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Roy figured this had to be the same place where the police car got spray-painted and the alligators were hidden inside the latrines. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me. Hasn’t he been in trouble with the police? Doesn’t he have some kind of police record?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at the best of times, when one had all these documents, a police officer might harass you because one was missing a signature or had an incorrect date. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty feet away—at the corner—he noticed a police cruiser. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In my dream, they told me they were the police. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's your father when he was your age. We alerted the police in Chennai city. They're too busy to search for every poor child who goes missing, but it helped that we filed a report." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you five minutes to get your stuff and clear out. After that, I call the police.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko put the squad car into a U-turn so he could take the boy to the police station. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the police got so many complaints from his neighbors that they told him he couldn’t shoot off any more rockets in that neighborhood. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the police cadets who ordinarily inhabited it had been moved out to make room for the American rowers as well as oarsmen from several other nations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the Supreme Court has indicated that in policing, race can be used as a factor in discretionary decision making. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe that Mom called Mrs. Cadaver. Mrs. Cadaver is making it up. Mrs. Cadaver proba-bly killed her and chopped her up. I’m calling the police.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They seemed to know that he wouldn’t go to the police, for fear of losing his mother to the authorities, and they got more and more persistent. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed too young and too pretty to be a police officer. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The silhouette of a uniformed police officer loomed in the doorway. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But over the summer there was little he could do to police the boys’ reading, and there had been much in both papers to catch their eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Any further incident of police brutality would be tinder for this media fire. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He informed us that a police major from the other car would accompany us back to Pietermaritzburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Something the rest of us don’t know about, Petra? Something you’d like to tell the police? No more secrets, now. And hanging out in Calder’s garden—really.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But I still don’t know what to do. Like, tell the police?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One police officer strolls toward us, as if this is no big deal, yet his hand is on his holster. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Momma and Daddy don’t want me watching the videos of Black people getting shot or choked or beat up by police. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The police chief stared at him in amazement. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Gallup police would find his body in the bushes along the big arroyo, and he would be just one of the two or three they’d find dead that week. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

With only a few exceptions, the Supreme Court has seized every opportunity to facilitate the drug war, primarily by eviscerating Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures by the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before the funeral services begin, the police show up and handcuff you. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If Miss Lilian recovers,” Mother was saying, “she might be able to tell the police something about Diana and Georgie. Maybe she saw something, heard something, maybe—” She broke off and began to cry. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Yet White knew that America’s judicial institutions, like its policing agencies, were permeated with corruption. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Get back here! You can't just leave! I'm going to call the police." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But in matters of vital importance—meaning, in effect, war and police espionage— the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The police admitted to stopping Whren and Brown because they wanted to investigate them for imagined drug crimes, even though they did not have probable cause or reasonable suspicion such crimes had actually been committed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of the police, George has brought the cavalry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“She asked me to call you and let you know that the police have arrested her for murder—they say she killed all those old ladies.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Can you leave? Walk me home. I have to calm down my parents before they call the police or something.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

O'BRIEN King made a statement to the police when he was arrested. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his worried face I could tell he’d clearly decided these weren’t true police but the other kind: drunk men with guns and a hunger for bribes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all were modified, with engines souped up to outrun police cars and secret compartments big enough to carry large amounts of hidden alcoholic beverages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Startled, she removed it, a .38 police special; and loaded, too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legal rule is in place so the police and government can't abuse their power and lock someone up for no reason. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

My dad spoke of “good” jobs in the post office or on the police force. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"There's something brewing," one of the police says. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Publicly, however, the parking meter had to stay so long as the mayor, the council, and the police force were locked in a life-and-death struggle with Onofre Martinez. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the initial release of its specifications and performance charts back in August of 2020, most police agencies which dealt with escaped andys had been protesting. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The police chief in his speedy Ford was rushing from jook to jook and eating house trying to keep order, but making few arrests. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

When she hung up, she mentioned casually to her husband that apparently some sort of police agent had arrived in Milagro for a meeting and she wondered vaguely why, and with whom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the second time in two days we had police at the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“What about the stupid politicians in the Western House of Assembly that the police had to use tear gas on? Tear gas! And their orderlies carried their limp bodies to their cars! Imagine that!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If we can flush those pills down the toilet, she might be okay. In the meantime, speaking of that TV show, do you think we should call the police?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mayor Thompson mobilized the state militia, but the city’s police chief did not want their help, and Mayor Thompson let him have his way. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The police had entered our house when we weren’t there. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The police car’s engine started up, and dust clouds followed the car as it left our farm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was so much a part of everyday life even the local police didn't bother with it, which is why the island was also a depot for smugglers. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The police are worried he might come back here.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The harbor police and firefighters arrived and managed to put out the latter two fires before the buildings were completely destroyed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

When the secret police conducted raids, they always made a point of tearing things up, ruining furniture, wrecking stuff. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Not the secret police trying to murder us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He saw Ms. Morales shake off Natalie’s hand and turn around, as if she still intended to solve everything by talking to the police. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In a back room behind the police station’s long counter two policemen tried to question her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Before entering, police deployed a flash-bang grenade, resulting in a blinding, deafening explosion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And then the police were at our sides, whispering to us, “We’re going to have to shut you off now. We’re going to have to shut you off.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there was something that I didn’t tell the police, because it is none of their business,” Mrs. Hauser said. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But studies show that more than 90 percent of juveniles who are interrogated by police don’t wait to talk to an attorney and don’t understand the rights the police have read them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the police arrive at the river, they ask Enrique for identification papers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Jan nailed a pinewood board over the gap in the door and went off again with Miep to inform the police of the break-in. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I have given the police this email address. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

How many times had I heard: “Be careful of police”; “Be careful of white people.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“Except this,” said a police officer, coming out of Jake’s bedroom, holding a blue booklet in his gloved hand. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Border police were swamped, trying in vain to ease the gridlock by dividing traffic into four lanes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to do something, because the police are only interested in Scott. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this part of Brooklyn, with its giant oak trees and multimillion-dollar brownstones, police and ambulance sirens mean that something really did go down. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Say no to police brutality and causing fatality. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police station was almost at the bottom; the yellow bulbs at the entrance sizzled in the dampness like wet torches. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I rang the police almost as soon as I got home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as the police official rummaged through the contents of the briefcase, examining each item. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Charles is very fond of you. You know that. Besides, the police don’t know who you are. I don’t think they’ll be likely to associate you with that other business.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

One might think that judges are the most powerful, or even the police, but in reality the prosecutor holds the cards. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We said we dialed the number by accident, and the police let us off the hook with a warning. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The KGB's Fifth Directorate policed anyone who dared criticize the system. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, we heard stories of teenagers who were beaten by the police for attending a coed party. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo didn’t trust these policemen, and the last place she wanted to go was to the police station. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The rainbow mural of faces and suns painted on the other side of the building was visible just beyond the tangled web of yellow police tape blocking off the wreckage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It takes a lot of guts to be as upfront as he is. I meant what I said at Khalil’s funeral, Starr. It was very brave of you to talk to the police.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I gasped in terror, thinking it was the police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t know that Osh would draw a picture to help the police hunt for him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had thought about calling the police, but didn’t want to interfere. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes rove upward and find the police officer. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Everybody was mad but in a few minutes the partying was on and we forgot about the police. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To avoid police roadblocks, I entered Soweto through Kliptown, which was normally not patrolled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing happened for a few weeks, and then the security police wrote to inform her that the house in Brandfort had been repaired and she must return. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly situated people inevitably are treated differently when police are granted permission to rely on racial stereotypes when making discretionary decisions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once again, we were clumsily shadowed by Special Branch police. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was some advice we had from the police,” she said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“White people,” the study’s authors observed, “are simply not perceived as drug offenders by Seattle police officers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!” the Hungarian police were screaming. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police would find out more than I would and it wasn’t fair. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think the police will come in this weather?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go look in the trunk of Red’s car. If there is a letter opener in there, I’ll believe her story. If not, you can call the police.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer: yes indeed, additional police substantially lower the crime rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s actually the police chief here. In charge of the entire department.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Late in November, a two-week inquiry was held by the police and fire commissioners concerning the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Judenrat police enjoyed their new jobs too much, it was true, but there were others who tried to do what the Germans told them without making things worse for their fellow Jews. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And three blocks behind me, bobbing through the people on the sidewalk, is the police hat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The police made Cap lie facedown in the aisle while they cuffed his hands behind his back. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They watched police officers haul migrants by the hair or twist their wrists behind their backs, the “manita de puerco, ” before throwing them into the back of their pickup trucks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then came that terrible day with the phone ringing endlessly, the police showing up at the door, Sierra’s parents hurrying their shoes on and rushing out to Brooklyn Hospital, where Lázaro lay comatose. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Similarly, black community residents who might have been inspired to challenge aggressive stop-and-frisk policies of a largely white police department may worry about “hurting” a black police chief. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The police must have taken it away from her. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The police had one picture of me with a beard, which they widely distributed, and my colleagues urged me to shave it off. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But American blacks, for whom death at the hands of the police was far from unprecedented, viewed the slaughter of its young college students as a moment of special ignominy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Woody’s screams were largely ignored by the two police officers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Move that truck or I’ll call the police,” their landlady said, and slammed the window shut. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That night I had troubled dreams, of a police bust and vampires and a gangland-style execution. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police broke up the ruckus and no arrests were made. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ann Atwater spent the better part of the night creating decoy gatherings, drawing police attention away from sites she knew had been targeted for the torch. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Victor didn't want the police to catch the little thieves. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I’d called the police back when I was ten or thirteen or fifteen, would Charlie be alive now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Abby then steered out of the Enchanted Land parking lot, only to be pulled over by a wailing, flashing state police car. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And someone must’ve called the police because when a couple squad cars came to the house, the dad stormed out. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

As David and I were talking, I remembered reading in newspapers about cases of black people mysteriously hanging themselves while under police custody. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacket, pants, cap, boots, and bulletproof vest, like the kind the police have, but more heavy-duty and with shiny black plates across the front, like something Batman might wear. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sang this song and the crowd joined in, and when the song was finished, I pointed to the police and said, “There, there are our enemies!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent much of every day on the phone, calling police departments across the country. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The police had shown up, and Dad got into an argument with them, and they threatened to arrest him, and gosh it was quite the drama. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most commentators at the time agreed that affording police the power and discretion to protect themselves during an encounter with someone they believed to be dangerous is not “unreasonable” under the Fourth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was one of the secret police guards. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I saw the list of emergency phone numbers posted on the fridge—Mother’s school, Daddy’s school, police, fire and so on. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t our job to stop this; we should wait for the police to catch the perpetrator. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Lana twisted up her coral lips and tried to imagine who had tipped off the police. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad says they evacuated all the buildings at Fermi. There’s police at all the entrances, and apparently there is going to be the Army or the National Guard, too. He’s at home already.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Beside them, a balding man with hunched shoulders clutched the wooden police barricade for balance, swaying with the jostling crowd. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

After she had called Ma on the phone, and we had walked over to the police station where they had her. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

This made Sergeant Rojas stop in front of the open door of the police cruiser. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had had several messes with the police, mostly in gambling raids, and regarded them as the natural hazards of Negro life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She could not even report the matter to the police, she added, for it would mean producing her passbook, which was not in order. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city police were terrific and made me feel as safe as possible. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They were all built by the same contractor at the height of apartheid—separate nodes in the central nervous system of a police state. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If, for instance, police were randomly sprinkled in some cities and not in others, we could look to see whether crime declines in the cities where the police happen to land. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Even the boy’s own family is scared to death; sometimes fear of police intimidation makes them hesitate to acknowledge that the boy is a blood relation of theirs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Between the two fences of the runway the police were clearing the crowd along. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At that time of night, the only traffic consisted of trucks filled with bodies and detainees, and police cars that roamed the streets like lost wolves howling in the darkness of the curfew. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched from the window as they got into a white and blue police car and drove away. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the Matherson boy,” Mrs. Eberhardt cut in excitedly, “the one who attacked you on the bus. And he tried to convince the police he was you!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’m going to tell Mr. Johnson to send for the police,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It is a bit like running away from the police and just managing to keep one step ahead but not being able to get clear away! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farmer vouched for his good character, and the police went away. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Special Branch of the police now made it their number one mission to capture members of MK, and they would spare no effort to do so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were out in public or anywhere people might overhear us and I called him “Dad,” someone might have asked questions or called the police. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her mother had promised that she would not involve Carla with the police but would do all the talking herself. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Of all the kids in the school, the police found it easy to arrest me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I could see no difference between the officer who killed Prince Jones and the police who died, or the firefighters who died. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He drifted into a story about his biggest concern on the ocean being pirates, not police. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He came over fast and told us not to go to the police! Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Why would someone leave a bottle with poison in it where the police could find it?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

That’s when I realized the police were not who I thought they were. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They won’t confirm it, of course, but there’s footage on the Internet: Scott, walking into the police station, his mother at his side. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how many police I tell, these images will always be with me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Almost hourly, it seemed, a police siren would blare outside the window or someone would start shouting, unloading a stream of outrage and profanity that would startle me awake on the mattress. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And it may be that you are quite properly inclined to tell the police about what you know. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aguirre says she feeds the police occasionally, to keep them on good terms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“The police are going to come after you,” she said. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It's okay, Henry. You’re okay. The police are coming. Let’s get you somewhere safe.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh, God, I knew it. You’re on drugs, aren’t you? Look, whoever you’ve gotten mixed up with, we can help. We don’t have to bring the police into it. We just want you back.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood was plagued with crime, and sometimes the police would come in their cruisers, sirens blasting. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I tumble off onto the sidewalk and explode into the street, my hands on the door of the police car before my mother can figure out what's happening. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I love that we’re getting a police escort,” she says in my ear. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“We went to Penikese and ruined all his plans. And set the police on him.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Boys pulled down some trolley wires, stole spare tires from the rear of parked automobiles, and threw stones at the empty police stations. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Four-fifths of the entire police force was stationed in the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Five pickups have coasted silently up to the cemetery with their lights out, filled with municipal police. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Aside from the police, I rarely saw a white face in the township. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a nosy neighbor had mistaken the escape for a burglary in progress and had notified the police. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't know exactly what had happened to Mrs. Williams, but I knew that here in Alabama, police dogs and black folks looking for justice had never mixed well. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She looks at me and asks, “Does this have something to do with the police shooting that drug dealer in your neighborhood?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

One of them wonders if the police officer is going to make them move the truck that's been taking up two parking spots in front of the apartment building. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I was there when the police dropped him off.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The police had no reason to believe anything the kid said, but Roy wasn’t taking any chances. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gustano kids hesitated, seeming equally terrified of Ms. Morales and the police surrounding them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I'd like to see your license and registration, please,” the police officer said. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Failing to obtain a satisfactory answer, he refused to leave jail, whereupon police again remanded him to his cell upon a charge of disorderly conduct. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the airport gets so crowded that extra police are brought in to keep the peace. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, you won’t get to meet with the mayor and the chief of police until afterwards. They’ve both been in meetings since six this morning. Lots of policy decisions being made.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The police got ready, the gambling houses got ready, and the papers set up congratulatory editorials in advance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most surprising and perhaps dismaying revelations was that Chicago’s chief of police, in his prior legal career, had represented Holmes in a dozen routine commercial lawsuits. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“What did they do when the police brought you to the door?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I think that any city’s police will tell you that very rarely do they find one type who will work at another time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those who took the bargain—thus accepting the permanent strike on their record—were promptly brought to the police station downtown, where they began repairing and repainting the damaged offices. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Your police chief must have a charitable heart. Either that or he’s desperate for warm bodies.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police have had trouble with them trespassing before. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was possible, for example, that O. J. Simpson was both framed by the police and guilty of murder. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"We have no grounds on which to hold Mr. Franklin," said a police department spokesman in a statement. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

R. T. Jones, the engineer who had intervened on behalf of the black man with the Hampton police, had beguiled Langley managers immediately with his facile mind. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Two police officers were strolling toward them, a man and a woman on the beat, in their white summer shirtsleeves, with their radios and their batons and their suspicious eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the woman giving the party said okay because she was afraid to call the police. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Big excitement. We had the whole police force out looking for him.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Afterward, however, Dad was the one to call Carl, to find out who we should talk to at the police department. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The police exchanged confused glances and looked to the Governor for guidance. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Each fresh arrival was briefed in this way; people—police, doctor, family members, servants—stood in knots that unraveled and reformed in corners of rooms, the hallway and the terrace outside the French windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The police refused to offer any protection to the protesters, who now were picketing in violation of a government order. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He could tell their police forces to come and get them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that what they say on all the police shows?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The cops put me in the back of a police car and shut the door. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

We parade through the streets of Underhill, past the site of the shooting, making our way toward police headquarters and City Hall downtown. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My wife is dead, and the police think that I killed her. What could be worse than that?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A guy I know went to the police when he got into trouble with a numbers runner,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Studies of racial profiling have shown that police do, in fact, exercise their discretion regarding whom to stop and search in the drug war in a highly discriminatory manner. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To Marshall’s delight they rode home in a police car, and they left a note on the Rosses’ door because they Weren’t back from the concert yet. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing that Dowell was in profound distress, the officer took him to the police station, where a police surgeon sat with him and tried to find out what was wrong. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he said, “We’ve got your father at the police station.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered, as I did, how this could have happened on Main Street when we are supposed to have police on duty all night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was probably the fact that motel management phoned the police that led to our being called on the carpet in the chapel the next morning before the ceremony. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the police had a suspect in custody, but Mrs. Holman, the loving wife, was the impatient type. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Baba puts up his hand like a police sergeant. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The entire thing is fake, the police told him. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My letter read in part: I am informed that a warrant for my arrest has been issued, and that the police are looking for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were taking a big chance, since the police guard at the door or in the warehouse might hear them calling, but there was an even greater risk that the police would return. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

What to do if he’s stopped by police, where not to be, how your hands never go into your pockets. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The Suits are conferring with the chief of police. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He opened his door and walked back to the police car. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as I opened my car door and got out, the police officer who had started walking toward my vehicle drew his weapon and pointed it at me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Back in Congo, police officers and military officers were basically the same—and they came when there was war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The police countered by dispersing mourners with tear gas, police dogs, rubber bullets and truncheons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, police officers emerged from a bar by the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Now, tell him not to go to the police. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Durham’s police chief told Spaulding to get "your people" off the street—which the president of the Mutual quickly did. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t trust the police. I don’t want to give them any reason to stop me. You know about all the black people getting killed or hurt by the cops, right? Even when they’re unarmed?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

No police or officials are around but, even so, a shadow crosses my heart. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I want your mother here this afternoon, and when your mother gets here, I will have a police officer here to take you straight to reform school!” she screamed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A moment later, we heard the engine of the police car scream to life and tires skidding in the dirt, scaring our chickens into a bunch of squawking. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We immediately took the paper and wreath to the police station, along with information as to what obviously subversive family had discarded the offending decoration. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry the police came and separated us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even though police had banned all gatherings of more than three people, including those of families who wanted to bury their loved ones, hundreds attended Mashudu’s funeral, mostly her schoolmates. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have the power of judge, jury, police, and army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distinctive sound of the police siren rang out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I climbed a shaky gate and crossed a paddock with jumps for horses made from police cones and stripey poles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But that must have been the way it was. Why would the police have lied?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Diallo was followed to his apartment building by four white police officers—members of the elite Street Crime Unit—who viewed him as suspicious and wanted to interrogate him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“She’ll call social services and the police and the FBI and the TV news.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t I just tell the police anyway?” he asked. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

His mom never put her cell phone down, receiving the updates from the authorities, the search and rescue coordinator, the state police, the National Park Service. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s also because of what happens after the chase, since pursuing a suspect at high speed is precisely the kind of activity that pushes police officers into this dangerous state of high arousal. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Other courts emphasized that granting police the freedom to stop, interrogate, and search anyone who consented would likely lead to racial and ethnic discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A twelve-year-old kid calls the police and says he’s running a huge business and somebody has taken over the house of his stockbroker? Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Nothing! It might be nothing to you, but do you know what just happened? The police were in my house! What do you think you’re doing?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the hazy dawn hours of February 9, four thousand police and army troops cordoned off the township while workers razed empty houses and government trucks began moving families from So- phiatown to Meadowlands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police only came those two other times, and since they couldn’t prove a thing, they stopped coming. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Holly battled through the crowds to the police station. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Erlone was picked up and taken to police headquarters and questioned,” the man continued. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now I personally understood my father and the old mantra—“Either I can beat him or the police.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Paul didn’t want problems with the authorities, so early in the planning process she met with the District of Columbia’s police superintendent, Richard Sylvester, to obtain a parade permit. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Like bands, tribes lack a bureaucracy, police force, and taxes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to contact the police before he was sure the thief wasn’t going to contact him with an interesting proposal that he could then use in a book. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Moments after busting into the mobile home, police shot Bryant—who was unarmed—killing him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I saw her on my way to work this morning. She told me that the police found a body at the bottom of the Seine a few days ago.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When those in the central plateau staged a rebellion—refusing to be treated as slaves—their insurrection was put down violently by Marine-supervised Haitian police, not unlike the French masters had done to their ancestors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Except the paramedics are here now, along with the police and the fire department. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were departing quietly, secretly, under a heavy police escort, in the middle of the night, and in less than half an hour we found ourselves at a small military airport outside the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police, who struggled to maintain their hold on the shepherds’ taut leashes, gave attack orders to the animals. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The police never found him, nor did they search particularly hard. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he hadn’t seen any police craft on the river at all, which was peculiar. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Every morning at breakfast the Imperial Entomologist derided his argumentative Marxist son by reading out newspaper reports of the riots, strikes and incidents of police brutality that convulsed Kerala. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Father phoned the police and arranged for a squad car to pick them up on the Gondwannan landing dock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frantic, the tenants called for police protection that arrived in short order, a hundred uniformed men, some on foot, some sitting high on the backs of police horses. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One by one, Clayton and the Beat Boys filed out of the police van and were led into the station, their hands behind their backs, bound by plastic strip handcuffs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Most Americans only come to “know” about the people cycling in and out of prisons through fictional police dramas, music videos, gangsta rap, and “true” accounts of ghetto experience on the evening news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The police are at school and I think a kid is going to get arrested. A friend.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You ruined us. I warned you, Jay. I warned you to let the police do their job.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

So if we had to drive at night, we were mindful of the speed limit, lest we get stopped by white police. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If you do persist in going—and we hope you won’t—we have no alternative except to arrest you,” the police superintendent said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The police had not taken elaborate precautions for the trip back to Johannesburg or for my security, and I merely sat in the backseat of a sedan, unhandcuffed, with two officers riding in front. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You heard what he said, Vanessa. He’ll call the police on us. I can’t go to prison,” Simon said as he tugged at his Green Teens shirt. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The church was a strange little white frame building stuck up on a hill behind the police station, built when the city was a country town instead of part of the metropolitan Washington sprawl. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The cop told him to knock it off and said that the girl was to go and he was to stay in his room and wait to be summoned to the police station. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Mama,” I whispered frantically, tapping lightly on the door, “the police are here.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “I could call the police too, couldn’t I?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He had a car, and together they sped to the police station. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There were five police cars now, and a line of officers crouching behind them, pistols trained on us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The main things to watch for are drunk drivers and, of course, police cars. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I knew Miss Volker’s hands must have cooled down and would be seizing up, but she just took a deep breath and proved to the police that she could complete a thorough job. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And maybe the police here are the bad guys, if they arrested Mom? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

That evening, while he was cooking dinner, a quiet voice on the radio announced that Nigeria would embark on a police action to bring back the rebels of Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Billington was not among the company of saints, to put it mildly; within six months of arrival he became the first European in America to be tried for sassing the police. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I know that the police have twenty-four hours to charge a suspect, and they’ve had that now. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the police chief was getting pressure to stop the incidents, Officer Delinko knew that catching the vandals would be a feather in his cap—and possibly the first step toward a promotion. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In response to the national turmoil, the all-white Detroit police force has been raiding after-hours bars in the city’s black neighborhoods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The police superintendent—a member of our congregation—is waiting on the platform in street clothes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Much of the same evidence would have been given to the Italian police. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were released provided we reported once a week to the police, and were forbidden from attending public gatherings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found him outside, being led away in handcuffs by two uniformed police officers. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the foreman and the police officer, Mr. Muckle proceeded with great enthusiasm to introduce some local big shots—the mayor, a city councilman, and the head of the chamber of commerce. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tagoe and Malcolm are still at the police station, sharing a holding cell that is twice the size of their bedroom. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The only reason we were riding in the back of the cop car now was that Manny knew Vega’s ma and had made the police take us home. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Nonviolence was a tough notion for Ann to embrace, but she tried not to strike back when police shoved her or when white hecklers spat on her at demonstrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

No. This isn’t some police sketch or shady security camera snapshot. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to put the telephone down now, Emily, because I’m going to call the police.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were wearing mismatched police and military uniforms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And Spoony kept feeding Berry the papers, one after another, as she continued to read down the list of unarmed black people killed by the police. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then we all sat around the table again and waited for either Jan or the police. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the night of May 16, 1977, police cars and a truck pulled up outside of the house in Orlando West and began loading furniture and clothing into the back of the truck. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later, after my leg got treated for the bite, after the police were satisfied, Uncle Myron drove me home. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The woman police officer comes to the door of the den and talks into Ms. Pagett's ear. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like Helena stood between us and the police. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kids like Shea were used because they were less conspicuous, and less likely to be stopped by police officers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It said the police believe two boys sawed on the rung of that ladder. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Interpol, the international police organization, had him flagged to be arrested at any one of 368 airports throughout the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, they evacuated the whole building, called the bomb squad, the police, the lot. The bomb squad arrives and opens the box when it starts ringing.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Satisfied by the sight of the two boys, the police moved on through the park. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Eventually two police officers got out of their vehicle. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Court ruled that Bostick’s encounter with the police was purely voluntary, and therefore he was not “seized” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I should have asked Elijah what he saw, what the police really said. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And I could not save you from the police, from their flashlights, their hands, their nightsticks, their guns. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It looked to them like another case of police refusal to arrest whites for attacking blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But before I got to eat my breakfast, I saw what looked like about a hundred police officers, park rangers, and school staff, all gathered around the front gates to the school. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, we spoke to the police before coming here and we saw the lifeboat.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had he been picked up by the police? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said the police come there so often to inspect that he found it hard to sleep at all.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“And your police, they would interfere, would they not?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A police officer yells into a bullhorn, ordering them away from the fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Now all the police seemed to be staring at her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He saw Wes lying on the back of the police car in handcuffs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I said I could sneak into the toilet and call the police. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After Aunt Gloria had tossed it on the floor earlier, and the police had said they didn’t want it, I’d taken it back up to my desk. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like the troops are goldbricking again and the C.O. needs to revamp the work detail. Let’s cut the idle chitchat and police up the area.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he organized a committee of black leaders to meet downtown with the police commissioner. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“For instance, did you know there are people in this store—in all department stores, actually—who walk around looking like ordinary customers but are really security police making sure no one is stealing?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Still worried about the police? They didn't even look twice at you.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They endured fire hoses, police dogs, bombings, and beatings by white mobs, as well as by the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“No. If they get into trouble, we soon know about it from the people in town—or the police bring them back.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every detective story started with the private eye or police detective taking a case, and Ophie already had that: What had happened to Clara? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The police sirens were getting closer and closer. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Let's go down to the police station and see what crimes they have for us." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Led by a police car, a hearse made its way slowly toward us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The police would never know it had been unfastened for a night, or so we thought. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’d heard that the Communists were targeting mostly police and government officials. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Because you police departments can’t do an adequate job in the simple matter of detecting the minuscule number of Nexus-6s who balk—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A police patrol came out to meet them halfway, and Alba found herself a few inches from a green uniform, with a pistol aimed directly at her nose. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many poor and minority victims complained that they were not getting calls or support from local police and prosecutors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sun is warm for the last day of February, like the world is remembering spring, and when I get to the ghetto gate, it’s the Polish rather than the German police on patrol. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I did not go outside, and because it was a white area, the police would probably not think to look for me there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broadcast cut to images of West Oakland High, the front steps cordoned off with police tape. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were airport security officers, New Orleans police, National Guardsmen, but few civilians. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Too dizzy to walk, Kaira’s stepfather had to be held up by a couple of police officers as he was led out in handcuffs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this study in the Times showed that state police are more likely to pull drivers over to the side of the road if they have dark skin. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The police were gone, except for the oversized and overweight patrolman putting great stress on an antique armchair outside our parents’ room. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But to do the policing job properly would cost money beyond any legislator’s courage to appropriate, given the present volume and toxicity of agricultural chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The relationship between the police and the people they served and protected changed significantly during the 1980s. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The white police and firemen came and stood around watching as the house burned down to the ground. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the split second before he reaches me, I see my future: in the back of a police car. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Frank had no telephone, and in any case, he had deeply mistrusted the police ever since they had taken him in for questioning about the Riddles’ deaths. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I noticed immediately that they weren't wearing the standard Atlanta police uniform. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And then I'm at the police station and my moms is rushing in and I’m standing up and shouting her name, Mom! We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If you stop to sit on the curb, a police car will pass and probably ask you what you’re doing. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was that because the police thought it looked so suspicious or because they simply forgot? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Bill Bratton certainly deserves credit for invigorating New York’s police force. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The road bears up past the bar and to the right, going by the police stayshun and the jail, all one place and in use more than you might think for a town so small. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

If he did not re-ceive a letter—or a direct phone call—from her mother by Wednesday, he would call the police. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In all probability the man and woman with the flashlight had alerted the police. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The one who died in Oakland, surrendering to the police. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Who is this guy and how did he get my number and is this a scam and should I call the police? Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But the dialogues ceased after a surprise arrest by police immediately following the last meeting at Reverend Cho’s church, several weeks before. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has he tried to go to the police?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

More than three thousand delegates braved police intimidation to assemble and approve the final document. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several black Volkswagens and a police wagon were pulled into the drive. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I found someone that we could trust. I told him everything. He called the police and helped me to convince them to come here right away. I was afraid I would be too late.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman stopping to break it up seized the black man, hauled him off to the police station, and threw him in jail for the next five days. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And as we approached the police station, standing on the steps outside Police Plaza 1 was my father. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“He’s probably a lot stronger than you imagine,” said the police chief. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before the backhoes and work crews descended in 1952, there were no sewers across its 5,500 acres, no running water, little electric service, and no police or fire departments. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The county sheriff’s office was a lot smaller than the police station they’d taken me to after I drove Mr. Rodrigo to the hospital in the school bus. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I heard the police had brought in a psychic, a fingerprint expert, a special team of bloodhounds trained at Dannemora. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The last time we smoked I thought the police were knocking on the door. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time Shin hit the road, defectors themselves, many of them former North Korean military and police officers, had taken over the trade and were quietly running for-profit operations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If you see a person in need of physical assistance, keep your place in line, and notify a police officer at the first opportunity. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Or rather, every piece of machinery—the police, the military, the prisons—that was meant to protect people like him was devouring anyone who got close. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“If the police follow me, they might prevent a robbery.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t relent until a police car pulls up, until I see red and blue lights flashing against the wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard my parents talking about what might happen if the police officer who shot that man isn’t found guilty. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s the body your daddy’s been writing letters to Washington about. The coffin never got dug up and shipped back to the States because I paid off a police captain to make sure it wouldn’t.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even the police and night watchmen are getting in on the act. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Shortly after his arrest police discovered a tin box, marked “Property of H. H. Holmes,” containing various documents and a dozen letters from the girls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“No, no, it’s the police!” they all said. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A retired police chief in New Haven, Connecticut, told The New York Times, “I was offered tanks, bazookas, anything I wanted.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When Miss Greenwood had not returned by midnight, it said, her mother called the town police. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a lovely sight to see him smiling as he was led away by the police. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles staging ground and gathered a crew of police and military personnel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She said, “I’ve made a decision. I’m going to call the police. I might even go to the police station. I don’t have to wait until Wednesday. I can go whenever I want.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Judicial police officers ask the driver what he is carrying. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language—violence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This created formidable problems not only for Oliver and me, but for the police and the prison authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also directed its police to hunt down Nazi spies, with help from the FBI. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The violence was so bad that on more than one occasion Antonio called the police. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The hearse and the police car, its lights still flashing, were parked by the front steps. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So after devouring a plate of delicious kan-yenya, the Pope washed his hands and walked out with the police. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It's okay, I got this,” Manit called over his shoulder to the other police officer. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. Just tired. A bunch of people got arrested, though. They set a car on fire and broke some windows. The police went off.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She could see him, white-faced, stunned; but preferred to see him red-faced, red-necked, cleaver in hand, bellowing so loud the neighbors would call the police. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand there, his hands holding me up, as the other officer unlocks the police car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Stuttering, Garcia managed to make his plea: he had completed high school in San Lucas and wanted a recommendation to the police academy and a government subsidy to pay for his studies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds on the sidewalk, the police holding them back. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was rummaging around in an abandoned police car—maybe looking for the emergency radio—and her bade was turned. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If a single strand of hair fell on any of those laser beams, a police car would come rushing to the museum. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Constitution actually says or what it requires of the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to go to the police. I get the feeling my wife is being held against her will.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Boldly, they carried the suitcases past army patrols, the police, and the Gestapo. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the bus pulled back onto the highway, he turned around and looked through the rear window to see Luma getting into the backseat of the police cruiser. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Instead he drags me to the police station, kicking me and spitting out bad words like bullets, probably angry that I have nothing he can steal. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote a letter to the police commissioner myself in support of Miyamoto, but I never received a reply, and Miyamoto was rejected. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When the police arrived, they found a dead body, a puddle of blood, and the gun. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The thin wail of a police siren rose behind them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I understand you have been working today with police artists on composite drawings of the persons you saw with the missing boy on Sunday.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She gives me a small smile, and I wonder, then, whether she told him that I was about to call the police. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazi secret police, something else it makes me sick to think about. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Father Mike had confessed everything to the police, the kidnapping ruse, the ransom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Eagle didn’t like to bring the police to campus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The flashing blue looked like police lights, but at least it wasn’t loud. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The whole skeleton erupted into flames, leaving a little pile of ashes and a police badge. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I could get identities for the police, learn who to go after for damages, and maybe even find out what their relative had been looking for. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The line of police parted, and the Governor stepped out in front of them, flanked by the armed guards of his estate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Keep moving, keep moving,” ordered a police officer, stepping into the road and waving the car on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Moira thinks this is only the beginning. She's got a friend who works the police beat for the local news out there, and she..." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Hamilton had run that way and I figured the police would be milling around out there. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I know she would never have allowed the police to get involved if she’d been there. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

None of them knew enough to wonder why the police were knocking. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The police killings triggered a four-day general strike, and sailors and workers throughout the city joined the shutdown. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“You know that the police are out to kill all of you.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ain’t heard? People say the police is lookin for a colored man what killed that white boy in the schoolyard.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men did not seem to be afraid of the police, nor did they dislike them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head was lifted off the floor by his hair and a police officer shouted in his face. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When I came out into the outer police station, my brother was sitting alone on a long wooden bench. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t want to get stopped by the police, we should at least look like we knew that much about driving. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“The police located the old man, but his short-term memory is poor. He did give them money. He can’t remember how much.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The police of Packingtown, like the Colts, were protecting their community. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Is there any reason to call the police?” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I gasped when I saw it was a police car. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He tells the police the two of them were alone the whole time. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they carried him from one police station to another, though they threatened him, persuaded him, bullied him, and stormed at him, he steadfasdy refused to speak. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Officer Williams. In charge of community policing. We work hard to keep our community safe.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A long, whispered conversation ensued before the police chief addressed the crowd. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As a result, the police became more savage: prisoners were routinely beaten and we soon heard reports of electric shock, suffocation, and other forms of torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a thorough search of the house turned up nothing, the police left. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The inability of many disabled, low-income people to receive treatment or necessary medication dramatically increased their likelihood of a police encounter that would result in jail or prison time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They’ve stationed police outside the door. If we don’t cooperate, it will be much, much worse for all of us.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The police came up from the capital, The woods were crawling with coppers, But Don Jose was invisible, Even to the noisy choppers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I can do now? If I go over there again, they call the police and arrest me.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A police car pulls up, trailed by two ambulances. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She was standing over me, screaming at me, she told me to stay put or she’d call the police. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bringing in the police, the Carter contingent responded, would only make the situation worse. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter whether they believed me or not, if I’d told them I was with Anna and her child, the police would have come. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why weren’t they demanding investigations into the brutal and indiscriminate use of force by police? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did God fail to protect innocent students from the police? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I wonder if there are, in fact, police chasing after him. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever the police came other children would scamper homeward shouting, “Mama, Papa, the police are coming! The police are coming!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leads police to the bag of jewelry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I recognized police. Port Authority police, too. I wanted to help them. Be as brave as them. Everybody was escaping, and they were going up.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I recall seeing some late at night on the street with police officers and stopping to say, ‘Are you all right?” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flurry of thoughts flash by: police sirens; handcuffs; courtrooms; interrogation chambers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Matthew, I was sure, would know how to deal with these police officers. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He had to spend six hours in the station house, talking to police, while his assailant was released after two hours and charged, in the end, with only a misdemeanor. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a police car out front and an officer in the lobby. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But someone is filming him, so if this really goes south, I have hope this will go viral so I can share it with the police so this guy won’t harass anyone else. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If you tried to play ball or even sit down on the benches, the police would run you out. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

According to the L.A. news, the explosion at the Santa Monica beach had been caused when a crazy kidnapper fired a shotgun at a police car. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem that comes up is when you're too infamous to risk placing a public bet and possibly getting picked up by the police. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I looked outside and there were police and everything downstairs. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A high police official came up to me, saying “Get those people out of there.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young accused Swann of being a traitor to the workers, an opportunist, a collaborator with the police, and an adherent of Trotsky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my life back in Marshall and during my travels, I had done a good job of staying away from the police. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were being taught our rights as citizens and how to protect those rights when dealing with the police. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger hearing us would have called the police to prevent bloodshed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or at the very, very least, I could have reached in and stolen your phone to call the police. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“And,” said Kyle, “you were so totally focused, you didn’t hear the police sirens screaming past the library as they raced to the Gold Leaf Bank...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A conference of black leaders, the bus company’s manager, and the police commissioner seemed to break the tension. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The man’s story was as follows: as he and my father waited for the bus several police vans suddenly swooped upon the bus stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court rejected their argument, ruling that an officer’s motivations are irrelevant when evaluating the reasonableness of police activity under the Fourth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A police state did not seem far off. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police do not have his gun, or the painting equipment from that day. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was pedaling my bicycle back to the store as fast as I could when a police car, swerving toward me, jammed me into the curbing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he stepped out on that bridge, he might as well turn himself in at the police station. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As soon as the lady got back into her car the police came, and put an end to the fighting. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to understand,” she said to Beatrice, “how your stepbrother could go missing for so long and nobody in the family got concerned enough to call the police.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “I am arresting you for assaulting a police officer.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped between the police officers and ran back into the station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The police press him, asking about Powell’s address and place of employment. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

To minimize the evidence found on him when the police habitually came his way, he set up loot-stashing sites around town, including a three-seater cave that he dug in a nearby forest. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha, unnerved by the police, had stayed the whole time in Dell's car. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was the police who had delivered the news that night, so they must be part of it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Witness after witness at the police- and-fire commission inquiry testified to this — but to little avail. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He owned the police; he owned the whole town. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cases against the city, the federal government, FEMA, police officers, the Army Corps of Engineers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For the police to show up and drag us off to the Everglades prison. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

People jumped into the Thames all the time, said the police. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mom and I arrive at the police station at four thirty on the dot. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We got to the police station but used a back entrance instead of the front. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Above, in the vacated room, police found her shoes, a moneyless purse, an empty whiskey bottle. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day they asked me about at the police station, I might have been mad then. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the police fired at the Panthers and the Panthers fired at the police. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The routine police harassment, arbitrary searches, and widespread police intimidation of those subject to English rule helped to inspire the American Revolution. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The police were clever enough to detain a prisoner long enough for the wounds and bruises to heal, and often it was simply the word of a policeman against our client. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You see all of them? They're undercover police. I worry that the Governor himself will come out with his personal guards. I don't know what he'll do. I'm afraid of him." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They walked through the Chinatown area where the police station was. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

With the police closing in on one side and townsfolk on the other, Uncle Al is forced to refund the whole day’s proceeds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Which left the police saddled with the Death in Custody of a technically innocent man. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the guard was looking them over, two uniformed police officers hurried quickly down the aisle. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Dad didn’t warn you? He didn’t say ‘Halt, police’?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“Probably because the police are still investigating. But this is our problem.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Foolishly, I headed right past the police car; it took one of the officers seconds to wrap me up and throw me against his vehicle. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The police think Eugene and Bobby fought over the last drink in a bottle of wine. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was still there at dawn, sleeping, when the police arrived. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He saw tents there, and military vehicles, and a dozen or so police officers and soldiers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The program’s success requires police to stop “staggering” numbers of people in shotgun fashion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We have to speak to the police, Anna.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery—humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

O'BRIEN Do people in jail look for stories to report to the police? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I confessed in the police station, he tried to get me to take it back. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Me and Ma had been waiting the longest time—it was after midnight now—watching the police start to haul in all these other types they had busted. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s run like a police state, and it’s boring and clueless.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More screams came from outside as more doors and windows were being busted by the police; the vicious barking of dogs escalated, as did the thudding of running feet. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police patrols would have been timed beforehand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of the Soviet police are that way,” Garland said, visibly nettled. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

From my supine perch on the back of the police car, I noticed an older woman staring at me, shaking her head. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Still, this question remained: Could they—could his side, the police side—weather the storm that might result if Joe Mondragon were killed? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You need to come with me to the police station and answer some questions, okay?" he says to Rani, who stares blankly at him. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Who cannot be reported missing, because if the police found her, it would be worse for her than if they'd never gone looking at all. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They saw many migrants injured as they tried to escape capture by the police. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The kids emerged from the Greystone house into a neighborhood swarming with police and firefighters. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"If they can stomp in here with three police officers and paw through our house, what do you think?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ducked his head at the police whistle, and rounded a corner, slamming into a hard chest, and a hand cuffed him on the head. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, my mom told me that the police think the gym graffiti and the boys’ bathroom graffiti are two separate people,” Patrice continues. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The police don’t know the identity of the girl right away because no one can read the ID card in her purse; they send a copy of it to a language department at Columbia. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe like a police siren, and a baby cry, and screeching tires all mixed up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I’m leaving early because I have to stop off at the police station first, to give them my statement. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police plastered the neighborhood with wanted posters, advertising a sizable reward. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“The police came and shut down the production. I don’t think that’s very helpful, either. It was just pretty interesting to read about.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Usually there’d be a police chase, cop cars flying through after some guy with a stolen car. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When someone ratted on him, the police questioned Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At the front of this motorcade were limousines carrying high police officials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a police officer behind him, or an oncoming local train. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They didn’t call the police, didn’t threaten to sue. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As he came up alongside the reckless driver, a hand was thrust out of a passenger window flashing a police badge and ID. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t, the tape goes to the police. I know some kids on that street, and I’ll find out if you don’t take it back. Deal?” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again she called the police, and the cops who showed up this time actually knew Abel. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Driven to the Bristol Hotel, Malcolm X checked in, and the adjoining suite was taken by members of the police force who would keep him under steady guard for the next three days in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, we were met by a sizable police escort. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see a police officer scanning the station and wonder if he's looking for me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Who would do such a thing?” she asks the police officer. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They were black people who elected their own politicians, but these politicians, I learned, superintended a police force as vicious as any in America. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He had been a cop for over fifteen years, however, and he was very sensitive to police work and to people’s attitudes about the police. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can hear them sometimes, the American secret police, the CIA, tapping into our calls to listen. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He poured himself a cup of coffee and added, “The police will sort it out. It’s their job, not mine.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of police officers watch us, and I wonder if they feel sad about the posters too or if they are angry at us for marching. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe a ride to the police station will help out a little. Come on, boy. Your limousine is waiting.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Lima was identified as a police officer from New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The police brought him back with two broken arms, his face bloody and bruised. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“But why did the state police bring you?” my mother asked anxiously. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were days of encampments, excited discussion, insults hurled at the police until the students lost their voices. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Werfel wondered whether this was a trick by the secret police. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Out of my jurisdiction; another bounty hunter from another police department will retire Polokov and claim the money. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

If the police give a dance for their pension fund and everyone else gives a dollar, Dora has to give fifty dollars. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tribal police officer and sometimes worked on Saturdays. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Someone had tipped off the police about my whereabouts; they had known I was in Durban and that I would be returning to Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, the police wanted to arrest him for murder. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know any nineteen-year-olds who sat on the porch all day and listened to a police scanner. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Does merely increasing the number of police, however, reduce crime? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Another woman police officer, in uniform, came into the room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took note, as did everyone, that among the uninvited guests at the wedding were a number of security police. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or you can turn yourselves in. The police will take you back, or your parents will come and get you.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how would I ex-plain to the police my being inside the house in the first place? Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She had gone to the police station to get a statement, which she would take to her visa interview at the American embassy to prove that she had never been convicted of a crime. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not get the police involved unless we really need to.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the time she called 911 just for kicks—with no thought to the fact that we were a household of undocumented immigrants—and the police showed up at our front door. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now I knew Ms. Ofrah was about that radical life, but when you think “attorney” you don’t really think “person standing on a police car with a bullhorn,” you know? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We need to consult mental health professionals, but we also may have to inform the police. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Let me describe this stereotyped situation: A crime wave is sweeping a city and citizens are clamoring for police action. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the police station, he is strip-searched, and an unlikely collection of items, including cash, a compass, a pocket- knife, and a newspaper clipping of Lincoln’s second inaugural address, are found in his pockets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

George, the older of the two, was a retired teacher and Ben was a police sergeant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would spend the rest of his life in a police cell, or in a prison for kids. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

From these photographs she picked, at police urging, Mr. King. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The detectives felt as conspicuous as one of Matsika’s police cars with its siren blaring, but to normal people they would have passed like shadows in the gloom. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The police forced the door there; they could just as easily do that here too! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then his mother told him that his brother had instructed him not to say anything else to the police. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nor had I considered the embarrassment I might have caused her should the police come to her home to arrest me for making that wild speech. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mom came back, she wouldn’t be able to pick either of us out of a police lineup. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Someone turned around and punched the bus driver in the face, the bus driver ran to a store nearby and called the police. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A charismatic police officer, investigator, or prosecutor struggles with his own demons while heroically trying to solve a horrible crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I guess our afternoon is off. We should get you out of here, now that the police will be searching for you.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And unbeknownst to the general public, the Supreme Court has actually authorized race discrimination in policing, rather than adopting legal rules banning it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It would be churlish to argue that smart policing isn’t a good thing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The windows are closed against the cold, but Helmuth can hear the steady wail of a police siren. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the police might want to talk with you next,” he said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I already told the police that I lent him the car,” said Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, the blue and red lights of two police cars flash in the night. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Richard was surprised when he heard the announcement that the federal government had declared a police action to bring the rebels to order. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I gulp when I spy two police cars coming down the cross street. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“About fifteen minutes ago I got a call from the police. Charles is in jail. He has been arrested for drunk driving. I want you to go down and get him out.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes to see two police and military vehicles parked in front of my house. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Finally, the police came and knocked on the door. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I saw my father’s head again, getting pushed down into the police car. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He liked to talk about Graham Greene, the British novelist, and his novel on Haiti, The Comedians, which narrated the story of the Duvaliers and their secret police. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I prayed that a police car might choose this street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police took me to the vice principal’s office to make a report. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gomo was always so proud and dignified and wore Japanese pearls her son had bought for her when he’d become police captain. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Carl knew all this stuff because he listens to the police radio, plus a lot of those police and firemen hung out together. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I'm panicked, though, thinking that at any moment Liz or her mother will turn around and see my sneakers or my elbows and call the police on me for sneaking into their truck. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the colored crowd showed up for the sit-in trial, the police department simply stepped back and turned the German shepherds loose. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He got that wound from the police in a demonstration,” he explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was asked for his name, address, age, type of work, etc., and although Bobby claimed that he answered the questions dutifully, there was something suspicious about him, according to the police interrogator. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning Uhmma and I wait in the car in front of the police station. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d always had good relations with the police in the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One month after Cole’s return from the island, the police had arrested and formally charged his father with child abuse. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Each time she looked out at the street and saw the police, her mouth filled with saliva. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see any police except for the young cop Janice had berated, who was making his way to the spot she had been pointing to. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We needed to have another meeting with the district attorney, Tommy Chapman, but this time we’d be going in armed with a court order to turn over police and prosecutorial files. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t just ignore the email—he would tell the police. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After strangling sea monsters and running over gorgons in a police car, Percy wasn’t scared of gangs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t get off my property, I’m calling the police to haul you out of here.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The police searched the Angelus but returned empty-handed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At police stations, large maps were marked with flags indicating the location of the camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing the law people in the area was elementary for the hustlers, and, like them, in time I would leam to sense the presence of any police types. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So long as mass drug arrests are concentrated in impoverished urban areas, police chiefs have little reason to fear a political backlash, no matter how aggressive and warlike the efforts may be. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This is the norm when the police come to Grafton Hill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For some reason, the police never found the gun or the small notebook, which was fortunate, for many more people would have been arrested if they had. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I had a long talk with the police today, but I refused to tell them who the bomber was." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police officer asked if there was any one else that could pick me up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The news switched to a story about South Africa—blacks rioting there and dying wholesale in battles with police over the policies of the white supremacist government. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We both watched as the door to the police car opened and the tallest white man I’d ever seen stepped out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were replaced by SS men, who encircled us with machine guns and police dogs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jordan knew that they had not called the police. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I found Bureau of Justice statistics reporting that black men were eight times more likely to be killed by the police than whites. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

According to the city manager, police operations were "crippled” and "paralyzed.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

New York City was a clear innovator in police strategies during the 1990s crime drop, and it also enjoyed the greatest decline in crime of any large American city. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The police try to stop them from getting any closer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

About how I thought his mom was dead but then she wrote him a letter and then he punched kids that he didn’t even know and ended up in a police car. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

From 4 P.M. into the evening, I was lectured on military science by Colonel Tadesse, who was also assistant commissioner of police and had been instrumental in foiling a recent coup attempt against the emperor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I should be carrying something, too, just in case someone is watching the building. It doesn’t matter if the police pick us up, right? In fact, that would be a relief.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was an inspector of the Hungarian police, a friend of my father's. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police were called and, upon arrival, arrested the officers on assault charges. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More than crazy,” she said, “with the police after him and a storm coming on.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, the villagers and police found him and brought him home. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you speak out too much against police corruption, you wake up with a machete in your back,” says Father Rigoni. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Nina, people love to give up authority to men in nice clothes. I have uniforms for the stadwatch, the harbor police, and the livery of every merch mansion on the Geldstraat. Let’s go.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He felt the stiff, arched withers of two German police dogs who ran together and often teamed to fight and get licked by the Gray. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can the police respond to something they started?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My own cousin was arrested and whipped by police for getting caught socializing with the opposite sex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That night I get some visitors—first Father O’Reilly and later the police. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Speakers stressed the need to refrain from violence during the march, both out of respect to the memory of King and to avoid providing police with an excuse to massacre demonstrators. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He asked her to come down to the police station, and gave her careful instructions for getting there on the bus. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing clothes the police had scrounged up for him at the station, this torn-up wifebeater that was way too small, pants so short on him they looked like capris. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Rydell in big trouble with the police made me want to get out of Greenwood while I was still breathing. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“But I can’t keep somebody the police are looking for. We might get in trouble.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents and Petra’s parents set off immediately to search the neighborhood with the police. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Donald was walking home from the store one evening, hours after a mistrial was declared in the prosecution of a black man accused of shooting a white police officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On August 17, almost two months after the first round of arrests, the police superintendent again warned Alice Paul that there would be another round of arrests if the protests continued. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Stephen stalked around the bottom of my trunk, where the yellow police tape encircled me. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he telegraphed the chief of the city's police to send officers to the White House to protect it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Imam Malik and a police officer stand side by side and are taking turns answering questions. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The bishop himself, accompanied by two incense bearers, appeared to bless the bird without having been asked, and the police band played happy, unpretentious music that pleased everyone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told her not to trust her weird neighbor, Mr. Rice, who the police carted off to jail. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Lawrence Celestine had committed suicide on Friday, in front of another police officer. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’m on my way to see Scott, and I’ll have to run all the risks of Blenheim Road before I do: Tom, Anna, police, press. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If the burglars take great pains to steal what turns out to contain a homing device that leads the police to them, that’s ironic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to Armpit and told him a police officer wanted to speak to him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And after the Daughertys came in at night, Mr. Daugherty would drive me back to The Dump in his police car. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her sisters and brother were persecuted by the police, and the authorities attempted to forbid anyone in her family from living with her. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either that or Charlene’s mother threatening to call the police worked. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And the evilest part was, I was sure the police would come to arrest me next. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The voices from the lobby get closer, and I hear a police siren in the distance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The packing company owners, the governor’s staff, and the deputy chief of police met to put together a return-to-work plan for the twelve thousand black employees. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I want to call her, but I'm scared that the police will pick up and track me down. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then, what would I tell the police when they asked about our mother? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did police put their fists in women’s faces so the husbands’ spirits would break along with the women’s jaws? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It means that government brass thinks the local police can’t handle the situation by themselves.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I hear the police radio calling them away to another crime scene. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the police officers nearest Emma muttered under his breath. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A police official convinced them to send representatives inside the school to check. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street from the school the police had set up wooden barriers to keep the crowd back, and they paraded back and forth, ignoring the jokes called to them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police crackdowns mounted, and more and more migrants came to the church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They would pray together about other things, but also that the secret police wouldn’t kick the doors down at any moment and arrest all of them while they prayed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her mother called the police after piecing together the breathless, frantic story Carla told. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I feared that the police might have opened fire if the crowd had become too unruly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You think if you commit a crime, the police give you a choice where to go? You think they'll send you back into your mother's arms?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Carl slowed down because there was a police car in the yard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thieves had dressed as police and had gotten the night security guards to let them in. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess you’re trying to help, but...can we borrow a phone? To call the police?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But then his brain started telling stories again, ones where the police drove their cars onto Coach’s lawn, sirens blaring. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Beverly Hills police thought it looked like the work of a drug addict, and accused a well-known local crook named Elmer Davis. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The order of the day is to help your mother police up the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of seventy-four police officers, just the chief and two sergeants lived here. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now it sounded like the police cars weren’t just behind the kids, but ahead as well. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The suspicious heirs gathered in the lobby around the police captain called in by Judge Ford. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, refusing to open her eyes until they were inside the police station. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Yet Burnham knew that such expenditures, as well as continued spending on police, garbage removal, and maintenance of roads and lawns, was vital. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dr. King made it clear that any protester confronted with violence by police or the Klan was to respond with nonviolence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The police probably barged into their home before they had had time to dress,” my mother said, replying to my brother’s question why the man and woman had no clothes on. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cops finally stopped kicking Bucky, cuffed him, and hauled him into the back of one of the police cars. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When they see a police car coming or that officers are conducting a sweep, they unlatch their front gates and usher migrants in to hide in their gardens and backyards. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Indeed, many were well educated and came from a variety of ordinary backgrounds: the Gestapo, the police force, government positions, or professions such as law and banking. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a black sergeant who used to tip off Winnie as to what the police were doing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The protestors line up by the fence, behind the wall of police. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lorraine almost passed out, but I knew enough to call the police. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I never saw the police before that, because we could never risk the police seeing me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many people, especially poor people of color, fear and experience police harassment, retaliation, and abuse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I would pop up here and there to the annoyance of the police and to the delight of the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind their van, the police chief pulls up in his squad car and steps out. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Everything was stolen, because the soldiers and police who arrested Zeitoun had left the house unlocked and unguarded. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Serious pancake eaters wouldn’t care what happened to the police car, or even about the gators in the portable potties. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this a police station or a circus?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That way, it would send the message that texting was wrong and, more to the point, police wouldn’t have to wait until someone drove dangerously to pull them over. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s the only weapon the police department will issue her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would they come at us with a police launch? Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her visits were becoming less frequent, as the police were becoming more vigilant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a drop in the number of those detained without trial and of deaths of political prisoners while under police custody. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to talk to the police. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t go to the police if you want your daughter back safe. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Maya, I assure you the Batavia police department is taking this very seriously. We will find the perpetrator,” Officer Jameson says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When the police came, everyone was screaming, and 1 was just too scared, so I cut through some back yards and walked home. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

How the state police had rapped on the window. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When called, Fred Gray’s student witnesses offered a very different story, of two police officers confronting a teenage girl with frightening force on a packed bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The police searched everywhere, but they were never found. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X’s lawyer, Assemblyman Percy Sutton, said that the police now had the names of those whom Malcolm X had said planned to kill him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what if something bad had happened to Momma and the police could help her? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

These suspicions were later confirmed by newspaper reports disclosing that the South African police had secretly funded Inkatha. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the grey head off a dry dandelion flower. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept looking out the window, hoping I’d be seen by someone who might recognize me and tell my family they had spotted me in a police wagon headed towards La 40. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ail around the building police officers with machine guns stood at attention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I assume this qualifies as a hate crime and that the police will be pursuing every lead with all their formidable resources?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In so doing, the Court made clear to all lower courts that, from now on, the Fourth Amendment should place no meaningful constraints on the police in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The police searched the entire farm and confiscated hundreds of documents and papers, though they found no weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And right now a carload of Kansas City police were on their way to the Washateria. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no police investigation nor social reprobation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no vans parked outside Scott’s house, no police cars. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the police took me to the hospital. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Except for the squeak of the windshield wipers and the squawking police radios, all you could hear was the rain hitting the car roof. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The militarized nature of law enforcement in ghetto communities has inspired rap artists and black youth to refer to the police presence in black communities as “The Occupation.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The boy’s parents didn’t believe their son would commit suicide; they didn’t believe the story the police had told them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Within the city the house of Stephen Byerley bristled with police. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then she nodded and walked down the tiny garden path to where the police car was parked. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I ain’t making no money I’m so afraid the guy on the next stool is the police. You know what we need in here to make money?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rang them up from police headquarters in Jerusalem soon after they had entered the house and flicked on lights in every room. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, getting to the police station and the first things that happened there were always hazy in April’s mind. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coroner’s verdict on a death in police custody would often read, “Death due to multiple causes,” or some vague explanation that let the police off the hook. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyhow you can’t. It’s a life sentence and the police are always watching.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had recently heard through counsel that Winnie had been informed by the police that she could visit me only if she carried a pass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He disliked the state police; he was also slightly awed by them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, a little after seven o’clock, two police cars raced into the parking lot by the bus station and train platform. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I say bring him to the police and let them handle it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The short article summarized the details in the case, including that the police were still looking for a third man and that they were conducting intense searches for Emmett up around Money. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The inspector said the police would need something more up to date. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he was, and I hoped the police would find him—soon. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She stuck to the speed limit because she didn’t want the police to pull us over and find my father in the car. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He'd been staying with his friend Jonah, the one who lived in Leimert Park, far from where the police were concentrating their presence, where they were likely to pick him up for nothing at all. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to make an enemy of the chief of police?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The police can double-check it, but I’m convinced. It proves the children were here.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the police came around asking questions, my father said, “No read Japanese. Japanese words. Me Chinese.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police arrest his dad every few months or so. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police cars and officers manning the roadblocks were clearly visible. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

New shifts of street police begin making their rounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Ida reported on an eyewitness statement that police “stepped aside” and “didn’t raise a club” as they watched the attack in the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Enrique has been caught twice near the depot in police sweeps. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If anyone were to come to arrest me, wouldn’t it be the police? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The police found his body in a wood like this. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There were perhaps a dozen police officers in there. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people don’t snitch to the police around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right as we get off the freeway, we’re met by a police roadblock. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A police siren sounded far down the road. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor stood on the far side of the podium, alongside the chief of police. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The police began stopping me in the streets and demanding my papers: luckily my pass was in order. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the streets of Mafikeng, battles broke out between the homeland police and striking workers and students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, how was he caught by the police? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mundín opens the door, his face so drained and pale that I’m sure the police have somehow tracked me down and my family is in deep trouble. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It looked like a combat stance, the same one that I was taught in the police academy.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Yet she and her husband made no effort to move from the building, nor did they go to the police. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

You leave the copy store quickly, as if the police might have traced your email, as if they’re throwing themselves into their squad cars and converging on your location. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The farther downtown he got, the more police officers he saw. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hardly a week after black schools reopened, units of the police and the army started raiding classrooms, arresting students. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. Now, don’t talk to the police again unless I’m with you, Tandy.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

When the police asked what he thought he was doing up there, Joe told them he was practicing to be a sniper when he grew up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Felix motioned to a police officer waving kids off the sidewalk and into the park. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A heartbeat later, the police officer flies down the stairs, his feet barely landing on the steps. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“One of my closest friends. That’s why we had decided to peacefully protest the police presence on our campus. So that no more people would get hurt.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There won’t be any raid. Weren’t the police here just today? People are just scared. They are always scared. They always, will be scared.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is a puzzling gap between the scale of the changes in policing and the size of the effect on places like Brownsville and East New York. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jails were packed to capacity.1 Reporters and photographers captured in undeniable images the confrontation between the children and the police. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t report that animal to the police. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

According to the police, as reported by the Associated Press, the driver of the car sent a text at 10:05:52. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The police radio was quiet as well; not much happened in Coconut Cove before dawn. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was perhaps no more attractive theory than the belief that smart policing stops crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The woman across the street testified that a moment after she saw the killing, that is, a moment after the el train went by, she screamed and then went to telephone the police. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the late 1990s, the overwhelming majority of state and local police forces in the country had availed themselves of the newly available resources and added a significant military component to buttress their drug-war operations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Do we tell the police? It’ll make it harder for us to keep looking.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing to worry about. The police have better things to do than to launch a big investigation over a couple of phony tickets.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When we were called back into session that morning, Judge Rumpff was informed that the police refused to bring the chief to court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On appeal, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in Bostick’s case that the police officer’s conduct violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Witnessing this criminal act, Six-Fingers and his deputies immediately detained the man and took him to the police station. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. The police thought he slipped into the water and drowned, but there was a bruise on his neck.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, thanks,’ he said, ‘I knew you’d understand, the police are here about Bunny, you see, and they want to ask some questions.’ The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That legislation carved a huge exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, the Civil War-era law prohibiting the use of the military for civilian policing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The police were already here this morning,” said Mr. Dalton. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the writers I have in mind are the purists—also known as sticklers, pedants, peevers, snobs, snoots, nit- pickers, traditionalists, language police, usage nannies, grammar Nazis, and the Gotcha! The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I find a good rhythm and put the police and corpses and destroyed gym behind us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Powerful white men—state and city leaders, as well as the Klan-infiltrated police department—used intimidation and bombs to keep blacks and whites separated. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Joyce called the police when he showed up at their house. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

But were they a crowd of buyers, or police? Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And the police don’t seem to feel it’s a particularly pressing case. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Once a month, Father let them fly to the police rifle range to study more modern weapons. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the Russian secret police knew what I was about to do..., she thought, checking the hallway to see if she had been followed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Those police officers must have stood at the top of Nobska Light with a megaphone and shouted about it.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

By nine A.M. , an estimated six thousand persons thronged the nearby blocks, behind police barriers, and faces were in every window of the apartment buildings across the street; some stood shivering on fire escapes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t the police arrest such people for murder?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just saw a girl I know being dragged away by the police,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it wasn’t a huge surprise when the police concluded that a pack of feral dogs had killed my grandfather. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The driver refused, an argument heated up, and the driver called police. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But maybe even something worse had happened; maybe they had discovered that she was dead and maybe the police were looking for him? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he never told police what he knew. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could not tell the police where he lived, or his name. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In '93 it was not the case of police coming to school to take you out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His successors strengthened the resulting embryonic Zulu state by expanding its judicial system, policing, and ceremonies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, “Did you leave because he was going to call the police?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks I'd get a letter explaining that the police officers had done nothing wrong and that police work is very difficult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The garage chief believed nobody was loony enough to steal a marked police car. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out his living room window after Petra went home, Calder could see the blue flash of police cars and knew they must be stationed outside Mrs. Sharpe’s house. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the first time folks in this city have gone after the police,” said Shamika. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come on then,” said the Sergeant, and led the way towards the door and the waiting police car. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our moral laws were policed by our Fmit of Islam—able, dedicated, and trained Muslim men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Nel who finally called the hospital, then the mortuary, then the police, who were the ones to come. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I saw her was in the police station, when they took us to give our statements. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police can easily argue, if challenged, that non-racial factors—such as gender, age, attire and location—played a role in their assessment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t let him take me to the police station, but I also couldn’t dial 911 to get them help. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This fact is not advertised by police departments, because law enforcement officials know that the public would not respond well to this fact in the era of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was hesitant to go to the police. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some prominent members of the community came to consult with my father, who had connections at the upper levels of the Hungarian police; they wanted to know what he thought of the situation. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That kind of training, conducted over and over again, in combination with real-world experience, fundamentally changes the way a police officer reacts to a violent encounter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If we heard any noises at all, we were supposed to call the police immediately. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

From one direction came the police car; running in the other direction were his two friends Well, the closest things to friends that he had in Coconut Cove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My client is an officer of the law, Mr. McAllister. By refusing to lower the volume of your music, you were in direct opposition to a police order.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The police officer had lost her hat; her pants leg was dusty and torn. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I listened to the police sirens, the angry horns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And how the police took our mother away in their black-and-white squad car. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it wasn’t hard to convince police officers that tackling fare-beating made sense. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children from the slums were easy enough to entice away, but eventually people noticed, and the police were stirred into reluctant action. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The men chasing them were undercover police officers—but Antonio didn't know that when he fired. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a brief stop at the police station, we were joined by another officer and went to my office, which they searched for another forty- five minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Students scattered hurriedly away and campus police emerged from all directions, faces and bodies tensed for a fight. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The museum couldn’t spare Morris until after the police had sent help for the sidewalk traffic. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can imagine how worried you were when you got a call from the police,” Mom said to Señora Oralia, ignoring the fact that Mrs. Hidalgo had done the coolest thing ever. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The police always seemed to be on the front porch, trying to talk sense into Louie. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

When the police pulled up, Eleanor walked out of the house, feeling silly suddenly about her bare feet. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There was no ambulance in the delivery zone, only a Coconut Cove police cruiser. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that an “unidentified witness” had been questioned and that the police were still investigating. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Although prosecutors, as a group, have the greatest power in the criminal justice system, police have the greatest discretion—discretion that is amplified in drug-law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Crowds stood in line behind police barricades waiting to be admitted and the policemen wherever one looked included numerous patrol cars and even sharpshooters on the roofs around the Unity Funeral Home. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least on this night — August 5, 1962 — I did not have to worry about whether the police would find me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a day had always come when the web of fear, so expertly spun by Capricorn, tore and the attention of the police was drawn to his men and what they were up to. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Something visceral and less tangential than, say, statistics, laws, police enforcement, or television commercials: The issue had to be made personal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So the police would be after him too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear you LEP guys make up your police business just to get a look at some moonlight. That’s what I hear.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a German boarding house at the end, where soldiers stay, mostly the ones who are with the police. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Apparently Adolf Hitler has a vendetta against tobacco, finds it filthy and disgusting, and his military police and their assistants are not meant to smoke at work. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He was headed to Europe, police said, to join his Danish mistress, a former nurse, with whom he had had two children. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sure there were police officers coming to talk to us. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Not the police. I need you. I don't know who else to ask." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This tabloid story, supposedly leaked by someone in the police, about Megan’s involvement in the death of a child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are liability issues, and actually, they’re unhappy that we can make arrests. But legally we can do almost as much as police officers.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Luckily,” Baby Kochamma said, “luckily for you, the police have made a mistake. A lucky mistake.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t realize that Elaine from down the street was running a police state.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In announcing this goal shortly after making fun of the language police, I might seem to be contradicting myself. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I told him about the time one of The Children’s Home kids had terrorized a bus and the police had to rescue us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Biased police practices are also nothing new, a recurring theme of African American experience since blacks were targeted by the police as suspected runaway slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The police were not yet so vigilant in those days, and Sergeant Vorster did not bother searching me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Franklin must not have called the police to report me, though I jumped at every sound and spent hours peeking out the windows, waiting for a patrol car to arrive. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I'm in no condition to talk to the police. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family was convinced that he had been poisoned, but there was never an investigation: “Back then, everyone covered these things up. The undertakers. The doctors. The police.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It had been easy to transfer his developing hatred to the teacher who disciplined him and the police- man who chased him and the priest who lectured him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Geyer knew what to look for in Detroit and, with the assistance of another police detective, once again began a patient canvass of hotels and boardinghouses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As long as you give “consent,” the police can stop, interrogate, and search you for any reason or no reason at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The police officer is running toward me while everyone else watches, hands over their mouths. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The police said there had been a witness who thought he saw a “bushy-haired Negro” running from the schoolyard where the body was found. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must stop it,” the police superintendent repeated. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Woody was taken to his house in one of the police cars while Wes was brought down to district booking. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“So where do the police come into the story?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The police sirens seemed to have faded in the distance, but maybe that was because Finn’s ears had gotten used to them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, every police craft in the city sat nose to stern, forming a barricade that spanned the entire width of the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I told the police what I saw—Johnson running from the scene of the crime. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She had not spoken to Wes or Tony for days, but after hearing the news, she wanted to speak to them just as much as she was sure the police did. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Unlike conventional police departments, the Guard’s mandate explicitly emphasized the novel idea of preventing crime rather than merely arresting wrongdoers after the fact. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Two police cars showed up and the buses made their way to the stadium in a swirling wind that sent little veins of dust down the empty road like slithering snakes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the winner’s circle, the police cordon gave way and the reporters and fans pressed in again, wedging Seabiscuit and his handlers into the corner. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do the police hate us? Hate Black people?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He came up for lieutenant, but then he decided to quit the police department altogether and go to law school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day a police car came and brought me to a hospital, and there my story ends. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The number of police officers per capita in the United States rose about 14 percent during the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We may improve some school districts, prolong affirmative action for another decade or two, or force some police departments to condemn racial profiling, but we will not put a dent in the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Mexican police called her death an accident. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

From there, we went to the police station, where I was told to step into a small, stark room that had nothing but a table, a couple chairs, and a computer in it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The fire department suspected arson; police theorized that whoever set the fire had wanted to destroy the secrets still embedded within. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Allowing the police to use minor traffic violations as a pretext for baseless drug investigations would permit them to single out anyone for a drug investigation without any evidence of illegal drug activity whatsoever. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"You can hear everything the police are saying on that?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This didn’t matter a whole lot to my father, who came home really late with Ernie Eco after someone had told him that he’d seen the police talking to his son. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“My parents have all of these talks with me—like, because I’m Black, I have to be extra careful around the police. Stuff like that.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once they were free of the police station, Jinjoo felt like she could breathe again. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Luke didn’t doubt for one second that Coach O had called the police. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Two police officers, wearing bright green “raid” jackets and displaying their badges and a gun, woke him with a start. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So they hired a lawyer, Louis Koerner, to pursue a civil suit against the city, the state, the prisons, the police department, and a half-dozen other agencies and individuals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“They are migrants. We are going to feed them here,” the balding priest tells the police, who, so far, haven’t raided the church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Shortly before the meeting was to begin, a police officer saw Walter and me outside the cinema talking with Father Huddleston, one of the leaders of the opposition to the removal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went to every police station and government building, any place that had the Nazi flag draped outside. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He’d been promptly picked up by a police officer who accused him of stealing it, unwilling to accept that a young black boy would have come across a new bike in an honest way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the end of his shift, the white driver went to the police station and turned himself in. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The police boats drew closer, their motors buzzing like a cloud of hornets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

An Oakland police officer stood looking down on him, confusion twisting his face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I understand,” Ackers said sulkily, as if his deep schooling in police matters had been derided. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the police who’d hesitated before began running after the kids. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The police have messed the whole thing up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about Momma saying how the police officer said she was afraid, and that makes me mad. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The idea was to signal, as publicly as possible, that the transit police were now serious about cracking down on fare-beaters. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she fell asleep beside him, Bigwig wondered how on earth he was going to fulfill this promise and whether they would be woken by the Council police. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police have already taken your personal belongings and put them in a bag with your name on it. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Several police officers took us upstairs after I had been thrown out of the bathroom and questioned us for hours. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I whispered against his cheek, “No. And the police are clueless, Phil.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Later? They could’ve been calling the police for all you know, but you were going to—” Rishi broke off and rubbed his jaw. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A too-patient voice with dividers between each word explained the legal procedures as if repeating a history lesson Carla's mother should have learned long before she had troubled the police or moved into this neighborhood. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The flashing lights of a police car came into view, then a fire truck, then an ambulance. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Next week,” Mum said, “I shall visit every school in town—with a police officer and these photographs—starting with Cheltenham Girls’ College.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Vast numbers of people are swept into the criminal justice system by the police, who conduct drug operations primarily in poor communities of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One reporter who spotted Guiteau at police headquarters after the shooting described him as “a pale, emaciated, small man, with the appearance of an insane person.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At eight-thirty the next morning, a police helicopter touched down noisily beside the bus in a blizzard of dust and swirling aspen leaves. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had to sign a letter requesting that the police release me into my brother’s custody. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad called the police and they came out and talked to us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jackie had called the sheriffs office because she needed a copy of the police report from the accident to process Jim’s life insurance policy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The phones at the police department in Trenton, New Jersey, started ringing when the Martians began their annihilation. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After we cleared the building, the police went through the office with dogs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Through his interviews, the police identified the other three men, where they lived, and more details about the crime. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My parents would likely call the police if I left the house. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The senior police official, not in uniform, blue-eyed, with a narrow, flaring nose and inexpressive lips, eyed Rick, then reached for Rick’s briefcase. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The former planters and new-money industrialists like Buck Duke controlled all the important institutions: courts, legislatures, schools, police. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen or more soldiers of the Protection Units police the roadblock. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But just to be sure, he feigned an excuse for the school police officer, who used to wrestle years ago and, as a result, liked Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He sent my photograph to these police stations and he sent a memo to his franchise operators, asking them to post my picture at every Hercules restaurant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What had been troubling him, however, was the increase in bomb threats the police had been receiving from anarchist groups. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

One time, we heard on the radio that Mr. Mackie from the garage got arrested for stealing, and she said the police had the wrong man. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A march was brutally repulsed by police; twelve miners died. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “you, a little police department employee, are in a unique position. Know what I mean?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The police fought their way in to them, then formed a square and drove the crowd outward, leaving Smith standing beside his horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Turner got up off the floor hollering for the police. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The police chief was rewarded with a raise. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Yakov to be alone again in the police wagon. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

No police sirens, no loud music, no couples arguing outside his window on the street. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Volunteering information to the police isn’t like an old Filed Teeth member,” Arm said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

An Irish police captain remarked with deep conviction: “I’m convinced that death is the only cure for the likes of him.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The police were smashing it, and if I didn’t open it their anger would know no bounds once they got in; I remembered well how they beat me up the last time. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here’s the thing: I couldn’t possibly know what the police had taken—or what might have been taken by an intruder the night of the murders. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen police beat people in the street—beat ’em with fists and with bats. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope they're not going to pick the tourists’ pockets, he thought, or I'll have to hand Prosper over to the police. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some people who had never been there ever, came; they got directions from maps, subway conductors, and police. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was what people did in stupid films about cops and robbers—the police were always asking for reinforcements. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He knows exactly how close to the campus he’s legally allowed to be, and he’s three inches past that, so the police can’t touch him. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There was a police officer there, waiting in a chair. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

However you sneaked out of that theater and spied and made me a liar to the secret police. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Sitting in a moving train feels as strange to me as when I sat in the police van. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I had to go a long way around the police perimeter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And when it was known that the police, or the army, or whoever they were, would open fire almost as soon as any of the marches even started, the marches stopped. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other Salamanders were roaring their engines far away, and police sirens were cutting their way across town with their sirens. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police are too busy arresting Polish Jews living in Germany, cramming them into trains, shipping them back to Poland. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dad phoned the police and told them how we’d found him. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Help! Help! Call the police!” shouted Eye, but the houses were as silent as craters on the moon. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of bringing in soldiers, the police chief petitioned the city council for a supplemental cadre of special policeman. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the police car, which was parked just outside the gate. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In poor urban neighborhoods across the United States, black and brown boys routinely have multiple encounters with the police. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The police were saying it. At the fence.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“If there really is a weird old lady living in the woods, you should tell Grandpa so he can call the police.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Trying to control the crowd, angry police officers call out. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

With a regular police escort, our vehicles no longer stopped at traffic lights. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The principal phoned the police department, but the police said they were too busy to send anyone over. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bars were closed and police were instructed to break up all large gatherings of either whites or blacks on the street. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So-called consent searches have made it possible for the police to stop and search just about anybody walking down the street for drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In detective stories, when the sleuth revisits the scene of the crime, he nearly always finds a clue that has been overlooked by the ordinary police. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mass returns quickly, filling in the spaces on each side of the narrow cordon of police. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, the Transit Authority hired William Bratton to head the transit police, and the second stage of the reclamation of the subway system began. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A war has been declared against poor communities of color, and the police are expected to wage it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hoping he could get more information about the best escape route, he called New York City’s police headquarters. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A second bullet hits a police officer, Thomas Delahanty, in the back. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

During the airport arrest police found in Swango’s possession a notebook in which he had copied passages from certain books, either for the inspiration they provided or because of some affirming resonance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He resisted flinching every time a police car passed. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The police came in the dead of the night,” she continues. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

People in the street cleared a path for them, helped hold back the police. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper said the police were “following up leads” and “investigating clues,” but no arrests were made and gradually people stopped talking about it so much. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate told me that the South African police were aware that I was returning, and he suggested that I leave tomorrow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I got back there, two police cruisers were on our tail, lights flashing. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It's clear that General Lee can outrun a police cruiser. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Lambert police finally declined to press charges against the Allens? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You know, sweetheart,” Mrs. Reilly said to the young man, “me and my boy was in trouble today. The police tried to arress him.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could you please tell your wife to stop lying to the police about me? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few legal rules meaningfully constrain the police in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even after they were inside police cars, they were showered with rocks. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One might imagine that the legal rules described thus far would provide more than enough latitude for the police to engage in an all-out, no-holds-barred war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Himmler ordered the police to arrest the Swing Youth ringleaders, male and female, as well as any teachers who supported them, and send them to concentration camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the start of this service, I was informed that, despite a credible eyewitness account, the police department has no intentions of arresting the officer who murdered this young man.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Momma and Daddy were talking last night about how a police officer is going to go on trial because she shot a Black man when he was walking to his car. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The degree of detail mystified the police, as did the print’s resilience. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don’t know what to do. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Regina and Rosa called the new German police, the Gestapo, to the apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear reading in the papers how the police were rounding up people left and right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arms folded, she takes a firm stance when up comes a police. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last year when Gram and Gramps drove to Philadelphia, they were stopped by the police for irresponsible driving. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

—After 1 got out of the hospital, and after all the police investigations, and 1 found out that I had to go to court, I was really scared. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Nicole was in surgery and Dave Bendix at the police station, I was home in my dumpy little bedroom, doing my thing, remotely scanning cruel people’s phones and computers, looking for nastiness to leak. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Every knock at the door meant the police were here to arrest the guy who’d bombed a basketball game with the weight of the world. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“There will be no unpleasantness with the police,” the first official assured me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She knew he was retiring from the police force in September. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A police car rolled up and came to a stop. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When she was seen months later with no child, police accused her of killing her infant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Modern American society and the Fayu differ in the presence or absence of a professional police force, cities, money, distinctions between rich and poor, and many other political, economic, and social institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Paraguay’s right-wing national police chief, for example, named his son Adolfo Hirohito, a tribute to Hitler and his soon-to-be ally, the emperor of Japan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then I was handcuffed and put in the back of a police van and driven to the courthouse to meet my fate. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had to look out for police because the park had shut for the night, and we also had a lit loosey. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It’s the opposite, come to think of it, of how we were trained to deal with police. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Have you not noticed all the unsolved crimes in the newspaper? The police say they need our help, that it's our duty to report suspicious activity." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

After I talked to anyone, the police would confront the person and say, “If you talk with Mandela, we will come and arrest you.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the first time he was seen after the assassination was when he showed up at a Washington police station the next morning. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Did she come home? Did Peeby phone the police? Oh, I hope this isn’t a sad story.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Migrants describe being locked up by police officers until a relative in the United States can wire the kidnapper’s fee and buy their freedom. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Senate held two weeks of hearings into the police conduct during the procession. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He is in police custody, although he has not been charged at this time. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His pant leg is ripped by the teeth of a police dog, not as fierce as my Guapo back home, but scary-fierce anyway. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what the police are going to find, and it’s going to be their decision, you understand, but I don’t think they’ll rule it a suicide.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Today it is no longer necessary for the police to have any reason to believe that people are engaged in criminal activity or actually dangerous to stop and search them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Which in this case, Joe figured, was tantamount to being singled out to be a human target on the state police pistol range down in the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then police officers cleared a path for one of the city’s bright yellow streetcars, called grip-cars for the way their operators attached them to an ever-running cable under the street. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It’s never going to be witness to brilliant ideas at eleven o’clock at night, or police escorts because someone set off the alarm. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“God, they were so nice to me down at the police station. They even gave me breakfast. Coffee and jelly doughnuts.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t criticizing,” the police chief said mildly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was behind a huge barricade, arguing with a police officer. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The border patrol called the police, the police called the FBI, and they all sat in front of us at a small table in a nice little office at the International Bridge Customs Station. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, so do I. So there’s nothing the police could do to him, even if they believed us, even if they could catch him, even if even if.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I tole you about all this,” I said to Lizabeth, “not ’cause I want you to help with the police. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now, tell him not to go to the police. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That party was absolutely begging for a police visit. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“What do you plan to do with him?” the police chief said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the police there were warnings of a different sort—letters from parents, visits from detectives hired by parents—but these were lost in the chaos. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Killer was about a New York City police lieutenant who was being stalked by a notorious Colombian gunman who had just escaped from Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trina was traumatized by the boys' deaths and could barely speak when the police arrested her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes to the ground, wondering if anyone will recognize me as the boy on the police horse. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The demonstrators were carted off to the local police station and charged. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fairfax had a town marshal, the equivalent of a police chief, who joined the deputy at the ravine while the Shoun brothers were still conducting the autopsy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Rick dialed, presently had the police switchboard operator. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of them, with police officers and medical personnel stationed there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Move that truck or I’ll call the police,” their landlady said, and slammed the window shut. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“This means the police will be here any minute,” said Pikes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was on his porch, getting ready to leave, when a blue-and-white state police car cruised down the dirt road. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Civil rights activists who argued that the uprisings were directly related to widespread police harassment and abuse were dismissed by conservatives out of hand. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The newspapers say that the police are being more circumspect, that they cannot afford to make another hasty arrest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be like meeting someone else running away from the police in the opposite direction—you would both be caught! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyons, a twenty-four-year-old black man, was driving his car in Los Angeles one morning when he was pulled over by four police officers for a burned-out taillight. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Every building is faded, crumbling, and pockmarked—except, of course, the police headquarters. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His family maintained that he was beaten by police and jail officials who then denied him his asthma inhaler and medication despite his begging for it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many professors were fired, arrested, or simply disappeared, in accordance with a blacklist in the hands of the political police. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Military police manned all campus entrances, patrolling the comings and goings of everyone on the grounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Little Rock’s finest police officers and members of the federalized National Guard stood by, watching with their arms folded as we were hit time after time. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toño told me that these guys work for the police for privileges and for part of what those guarros rob from Beast Riders. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to rush toward my mother, who was already being put in the backseat of a police car. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Instead she described to Inspector Thomas Mathew how it was not just what Velutha had said that had made her come to the police, but the way he said it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going over the whole business from the beginning, methodically, painstakingly, as he had been wont to do in his police officer days. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

My parents haven’t raised me to fear the police, just to be smart around them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The police agreed but pleaded short-handedness and tried for increased budget and sometimes succeeded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the evening, Max would whistle or cough, sneeze or sing, letting me know there were no police, and I would pass him food through the weak place in the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Enrique knows that is futile; the last time he tried running from the police in the cemetery, he was caught and deported. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was scattered gunfire; army helicopters whirred above the township; word circulated that armoured police cars had cordoned the ghetto once more. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is frequently argued in defense of mass incarceration that African Americans want more police and more prisons because crime is so bad in some ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was maddening for a police officer, but he admitted that this element of checks and balances would have been useful in this case. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Community groups accused the police of being insensitive and racist. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She hadn't dealt with the police much around the Morrison murder and didn't have useful information pointing to their misconduct, aside from being able to show how they were provoked by her relationship with Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, knowing that these two police officers had not purposely hunted and arrested a man because he was Middle Eastern gave them some comfort. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Better call the ice cream police,” someone whispers loudly from the crowd. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There is e-mail from juvenile court, from schools, from the police department. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A couple of times a year, I would come to find, a Sing Sing officer was hauled off in handcuffs by the state police. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Michigan state police raided an illegal Detroit bar, they discovered the local congressman, the local sheriff, and the city’s mayor all having a drink. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If the police seized your car worth $5,000, or took $500 cash from your home, would you be willing to pay an attorney more than your assets are worth to get them back? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The local police department’s call database for August 17 lists an unfounded complaint about a Windsurfer in the vicinity. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Court ruled that the police are free to use minor traffic violations as a pretext to conduct drug investigations, even when there is no evidence of illegal drug activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The newspaper had said how the police ambushed the Black Panthers while they were in a car and how the Panthers fled inside a house for shelter. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the trickle of foreign videos turned into a flood, North Korean police became alarmed and came up with new tactics to arrest people who watched them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I was with some boys and the police picked us up.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The police arrested the women, then let them go with a warning. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It had ended with the Blue Monkey, which the police were unable to find. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the semicircular bay window behind the piano and looked down onto Seventy-second Street to watch the police load up their vans with my parents’ belongings. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It’s as if no one in this school knows or cares that an unarmed black girl was assaulted by the police just across the river. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Under an elder bush, on the far side of the track, two Owslafa, or Council police, were waiting; and with them was the stranger. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had got into the plane, he had intended to use the radio to call the police or anyone else who might be listening. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“W asn’t that awful. The police arresting one of they very own.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a police officer in Shreveport for a time, but was treated, he said, “like a second-class citizen.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Somebody in this room must have called the police last night.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They detained him until my aunt and uncle bribed the police for his release. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Here. This is what I took. If we get out of here, I thought I could give it to the police. I thought...” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One could never be sure who in a group might report what to the police. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Patrol Force ambushed the gangs and hauled the captured members into police headquarters. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And once you’re inside, they’ve got all kinds of hidden panels and quick hiding spots so they can stash their liquor in case there’s a raid by the police. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’ll live to see tomorrow if we can hide this car from the police.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law helped transform the country into a police state; no dictator could covet more power than the Ninety-Day Detention Law gave to the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guitar must be running, from the police, maybe, and decided to run toward his friend—the only one other than the Days who would know what it was all about and whom he could trust. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because no domestic violence charges had ever been filed in all the times my mother had called the police to report him, Abel had no criminal record. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"I rigged this little thing here so I can catch police talk. Lot more interesting than anything else on the airwaves. And better than waiting for the news to hit the papers." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This was a law-abiding family neighborhood, and no one wanted a creep like this on the loose among so many children, least of all the police. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I had to face reality: The crime scene had been destroyed by the police, and there could be no useful evidence whatsoever still inside. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

So if the police come, Emma’s going to be safer than Finn or me, but…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes momentarily and saw the three black police men, only a few steps from the door, stop and look at one another. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police, they cried silently. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew: Don’t open your door to a stranger, even if he says he is the police. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police called off the search, put us all in our car, and sent us home to grieve. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The armored cars of the police stationed themselves out on the street, surrounding the ancient building. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She later said the police had to untwine him before he could be taken to the ambulance. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she told Cholly to get out or she would call the police. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

An incident of police brutality that would be understood as undeniably racist if the officers involved were white may be given a more charitable spin if the officers are black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After that evening my longing to see it again was even greater than my fear of burglars, a dark rat-infested house or police raids. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

While I am thinking of what to do about the police going after the hungry childrens, I am wondering where are the parents of the childrens? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Elinor had been driving for more than an hour before she finally reached a town with its own police station. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Chicago police were waiting when the plane landed at O’Hare Airport that night at eight o’clock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We rode in the police car!” he says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

My father walks back up the driveway after the last of the police cars have pulled away. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

If the police asked me what I did with the poison I bought, I would tell them I gave it to Spizz. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Train crews say this is where the police stage their biggest shakedowns. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The police of the division have been instructed to keep a sharp look-out for straying children, especially when very young, in and around Hampstead Heath, and for any stray dog which may be about. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Gil didn't tell her to leave, so she waited for the police in his kitchen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All of Harlem had seen how from then on, the police gave Muslims respect. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So? That’s better than being cold and hungry all the time and dodging the railroad police.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every couple of weeks, nearby, state and local police officers conduct sweeps to find migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My mouth was so wide open all through Andre’s speech that the police could have flown right in, and I wouldn’t have noticed or cared. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji tried to help navigate, keeping his eyes peeled for police cars and other cars in general. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever Farmer walked in the city he felt the presence of the tontons macoutes, Baby Doc’s infamous secret police, who hid behind dark glasses and seemed to shadow foreign visitors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Ten of these vessels, all staffed by soldiers or police officers, ignored their canoe and their calls for assistance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This where the white lady get the old-timer disease and call the police department ever morning cause a colored woman just walked in her house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then Mami had to meet Tío Vic in the middle of the night with the gun hidden under her raincoat so it wouldn't be on the premises in case the police came. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I would then be handed back over to the police. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He sits up and reads from his phone, ‘“Vancouver, Washington, police manhandle black teen at house party.’” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The mayor refuses to comment but his commissioner of police is suddenly everywhere talking tough about equal justice under the law. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was a detective, so he didn’t wear a normal police uniform. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In that case, the Court concluded that the police could take a person’s Mexican appearance into account when developing reasonable suspicion that a vehicle may contain undocumented immigrants. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But nothing. This is no time to satisfy a whim and unravel everything you’ve accomplished. There’ll be enough of a circus, what with the soldiers, FBI, city police, and who knows all.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy, why do you think that jury said the police officer wasn’t guilty? Everybody knows she shot him. Everybody saw the video.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of SS appeared out of the darkness, accompanied by police dogs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon every student found a message slid under his door, containing an appeal from Harvard’s president, Abbott Lowell, for men to volunteer to help ease the crisis brought about by the police strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Today, people labeled felons live in constant fear of a different form of racial repression—racial profiling, police brutality, and revocation of parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The police were called to a house party because neighbors complained about loud music. The cops are saying when they came to break up the party, she was insubordinate.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen him before, but I certainly hadn’t met all the police officers at my dad’s station. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They waited in the police station for me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I also learned that our house had been raided and the police had detained a young relative of Winnie’s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when you ask students to police other students, you give them license to use learned biases against one another.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So if you had a beef with the guy who got killed, someone will accuse you of murder and the police will come knocking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When Edwina and Marshall’s relatives were called, they hurried to the police station, paid the teenagers’ fines, and got them out ofjail. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I thought of that day in September when I had walked into the police station for my first chat with Wootie. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No covert military tribunal, Secret Service snoopers, or police group could have devised half as comprehensive or effective a Distant Early Warning System. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But lying to the police after everything he’s been through? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I'd tried to explain what I saw, but the police officer just shook his head and said I was in shock. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of the police around Lansing didn’t like Mom or Papa very much. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police had come by the building the day I ran off and asked her lots of questions. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever ever speaks about what happened to my mom when the secret police took her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Yesterday afternoon, after growing suspicious, he broke into Corcoran’s dormitory room, and subsequently notified police. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some had stayed behind, along with the French police. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In a group we were more of a target for the Flops, who were the ghetto police. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But the radio inside the police car began to crackle and sputter, as if it had read his mind. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cared when she ran out across the gravel and spoke to him by the open police car door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When you left her, you terminated your rights, the police told her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Would they call the police, to report a suspicious meeting? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All we could hear was the sound of the flames, and little pieces of the car sizzlin’ and burnin’, and then the sirens of the police cars. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three people called the police on her while she was waiting for my uncle to come and get her. Suspicious character. Five-three, she was. About a hundred pounds. Real dangerous.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As their conversation turns more urgent, I tap my phone twice and send out a text message to the police. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each week, he gives police officers who patrol the river a 10 percent cut of his earnings as a smuggler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As he said this a mottled-green, 1953 Chevy pickup with a three-legged German shepherd riding atop the cab rattled down the road, coasting to a stop behind the police car. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The nearest police are about twenty miles from here in Altamont,” Mr. Milo says, his eyes wide. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people think Black people are against the police because of Black Lives Matter. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

If the police weren’t going to help me, I thought, I would go over there myself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I remember that the police were always dropping by our house, shoving things around, “just checking” or “looking for a gun.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forrest said Imogen could have been abducted from outside the apartment, but the police officers reminded him about the bread box. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the telephone, and she opened the phone book and telephoned the local police station. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Tear gas is just what the police use to shut down parties in black neighborhoods, like the club turning on the lights to tell everyone to go home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Tonight you get your one and only warning from the Mount Pitts police department. After this, you don’t get a break.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two days before the race, the police informed him that someone was trying to kidnap him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s good. Now get out of this station, boy, or do I need to call the police?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Another good reason to call the police first thing. If he’s stolen what you set aside for yourself, Crow, he’ll need to answer for it.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

That maybe the police would get on him for stalking if we gathered enough evidence. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Sam lifted the lid high enough to see not one but two police officers in the doorway. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If he put his mind to it, he could coerce away the whole letter on some pretext of giving it to the police, having the typing analyzed, who knew what he might come up with? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No one from the police ever bothered to respond,” said Bert. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Others found out—from a friend, family member, police officer, or newspaper office—that they were tuned to a radio drama. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then it was police cadets drilling at odd hours. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Court has ruled that a city police department cannot be sued for damages unless a specific city policy or custom can be identified authorizing the illegal practice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The police officers were sitting on the sofa in the living room, a fortysomething man in plain clothes and a younger one in uniform with acne on his neck. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police officer must have taken a shortcut because he's back in view, but nearly two blocks away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Brian had joined the police force as soon as he turned twenty. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A woman five blocks away called the police to complain about the noise and couldn’t get anyone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd wasn’t large, but the police chief recognized an awakening “situation” when he saw one. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

"It got worse. When we didn't leave, the villagers tried to kill us all, and the police wouldn't help." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

More than anything else, it was the lack of concern and responsiveness by police, prosecutors, and victims' services providers that devastated Mozelle and Onzelle. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

During the second part of the broadcast, police officers appeared at the control booth, wanting to know what was going on. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They’d called the police in all three towns, and in all three towns every cop on duty was driving and looking, trying to find a small boy traveling with a little spotted dog. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The third: After two days, police surprised him while he was asleep in an empty house near Chahuites, 190 miles into Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After Pattie signed the bottom of the paperwork that gave her legal responsibility for Willow for the next twenty-four hours, the police cruiser charged out of the parking lot like a getaway car. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Chicago knew the last thing you wanted was to get caught in a riot when the police came in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After the police arrest someone, the prosecutor is in charge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A police car flew into the parking lot to meet the security guards escorting this idiot from my year, Dennis Biers. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I was told of the police confiscating weapons one day in one area, and then Inkatha forces attacking our people with those stolen weapons the next day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw three police cruisers and what could have been an unmarked police car parked on Seventy- second Street, right at the front gates of our apartment building, the exclusive and infamous Dakota. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

A police car stops at the intersection one block away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He was trying to keep us there while his wife went for the police,” said Alice quietly, watching him over Malcolm’s shoulder as he paddled them down to the main stream. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“The police have no comment, but if you’re just joining us, Inside News has learned that the Angels’ deaths have been termed ‘suspicious.’ Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It didn't take long to find the right container—it was still sectioned off with police tape. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

No, she said, there was no point in calling the police: the missing items were small things, of sentimental value, and of no use to anyone but herself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They urged the Court to prohibit the police from stopping motorists for the purpose of drug investigations unless the officers actually had reason to believe a motorist was committing, or had committed, a drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even have the tin of 1080 I bought, which would look to the police like I had tried to hide the evidence. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“If you go up those stairs, I’m calling the police!” he shouts. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I saw her, Miles. I talked to the police. It was instant. The steering wheel hit her chest. I’m so sorry.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She felt terrible about the death of the police officer. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The police officer, who looked Navajo, was putting a young man into the back of the car. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mother looked up to see the police dragging in the disheveled Mellower. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you able to get any sense out of your Praise Singer before he, er, took to the trees?” asked the police chief. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And if through some slip-up you were caught, later, by the police, there was never a positive eyewitness. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer had closed the back door when Nathan finally reached the police car. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He regretted those words as soon as they escaped his mouth, but the police officer just said, “Sure, hop in.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He pulled a tear-gas revolver from his jacket and fired it into the air before police grabbed it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it has to do with his father. You never really get over a thing like that. At any rate, the kid attacked two police officers over on Bryant Street earlier this afternoon.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He added that the Klavalier Klub—the Klan’s whipping and flogging department—was now on the job and had plenty of friends on the Atlanta police force. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And I thought she might be ringing the police and then I’d get into much more serious trouble because of the caution. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But for the person who thinks, “At the end of this year, I’m going somewhere to be free, a place without secret police, free to believe whatever I want and teach my children.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was real concern, particularly among Alice Paul’s committee members, that the police would not be able to practice adequate crowd control. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The police did nothing to stop the criminals and nothing to find them; no arrests were made, no investigation begun. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until after my brother came down and ate the rest of the pancakes and then went off somewhere, probably with whoever he could find who had a police record. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’d called the police, which we knew would bring trouble because the car wasn’t insured, and none of us had been wearing seatbelts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One for the police, one for Internal Control, one for Military Intelligence, and one last one the young man sends along, not sure where it goes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police even succeeded in turning some black workers against the students. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not imagine a police arrest for not paying her school fees, but what did happen if you did not pay your school fees in America?’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the police could do was take down their names. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over and over again, I heard the same story: the police and the defense force were destabilizing the area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Morales stepped farther out into the street, closer to all the police. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The police superintendent said his conscience was clear. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Within days of my departure for the army the police were at my parents’ apartment, looking for me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He asks me, "Franklin was released by the police department. Is it right that he's now being tried and convicted by the media?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And so while Lenore huddled with other employees filing police reports and requesting interviews with hospital workers, Dell excused himself and accessed the school district website. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The police handcuffed the skinny men with swollen faces; they pushed and kicked them up the crumbling clay sides of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"That friend of yours, James Mosely. The police caught him. Put him in jail over the weekend." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He first accused a black man with a bad reputation named Isaac Dailey, but the police quickly discovered that Dailey had been in a jail cell on the night of the murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was tell my mom I was okay, and she’d believe me, I could go to the police station and explain everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When the police arrived a few minutes later, they found the American kid’s mother at the scene of the shooting, picking up the shells that had discharged from her son’s weapon. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Senate investigators didn’t agree; the committee censured the police superintendent. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The guys who’d been with me in the police van, the second we walked in, they instinctively, automatically, walked off to join the groups they belonged to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The family had been bombarded with interview requests, police questioning, and neighborhood stares. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Now suddenly I’m surrounded by Swiss police and can’t get him to the airfield. What are my orders?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not knowing any better, police officers had led her out of the crowd toward Mullet Fingers, spooking the bold little owl away from the boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said he talked to the police, Luke. The police.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Not that the police would even come after last time. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The police did receive a higher volume of calls, particularly near the imaginary landing site. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The police force of seventy-five was greatly outnumbered and panicky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gandhi was taken to the police station, where he was whisked through a side door disguised in a police uniform. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There are some news pieces about the investigation, too, but the statements from the police amount to less than nothing: they have spoken to “a number of witnesses,” they are “pursuing several lines of enquire.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt certain the police would circle the block and check on me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her attention back to the police. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In Chiapas, bandits will be out to rob him, police will try to shake him down, and street gangs might kill him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

What would Papa have said if he knew I was bringing Vonetta and Fern to a summer school where police cars drove by to see what we were doing? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would be afraid that the police would be there. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Museum officials had days when they had to scurry, protected by police, through noisy crowds to get to work. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The police got in touch with me. I was one of the last people he talked to before he died.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I force myself to look away as I pass a police car. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s footage of raging brushfires, and riot police in downtown Los Angeles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He feared that because of the lawsuit he would be a target of local police, that they would manufacture charges against him, try to justify his arrest. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, it was generally understood that the police could not stop and search someone without a warrant unless there was probable cause to believe that the individual was engaged in criminal activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The police commissioner agreed the seating rules were confusing and promised that the city’s attorney would soon clarify them in writing. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Chuck Muckle wasn’t a very jolly fellow, though, especially after seeing the newspaper article about the police car being spray-painted on Mother Paula’s property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither knew how to drive and when the police saw the truck lurch and jerk along Myrtle Avenue they pulled it over. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine him in the small police station over in Mount Pitts getting his mug shot taken. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She called the county police, then quickly gathered up a basket of food for Miss Volker. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were those who said that it was just a horrible accident, an inevitable by-product of the fact that police officers sometimes have to make life-or-death decisions in conditions of uncertainty. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The police cleared the house after a fight. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On more than one occasion, Carpenter sold a cadaver to an anatomical school, reported the body to the police, and then had his wife, dressed in mourning clothes, claim it as her son. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Colonel warned us about the police threat, told us not to worry. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I can’t imagine how it happened: Nathan is woken up on the side of the road by a police officer tapping on his window. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The firefighters and police and everyone are just waiting around out there for the building to collapse. They aren’t doing anything.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“A white woman gets her house egged and the police find a colored boy nearby, that’s all they need to know.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the sound of the police boats faded entirely, Somkit pressed the throttle forward again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Although he didn’t know it, he arrived at almost exactly the same time that Boston’s police were voting 1,134 to 2 to go out on strike at five o’clock the next day. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And if they weren't there, the container might still hold a clue that could help us find Nergal, something the police might have overlooked because investigating ancient monsters wasn't part of their job description. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The police came back to The Dump twice more. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Before they disappeared, one of the police said, “He’s been mixing it up all night.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And then the policeman came back because Mr. Shears had rung the police station and he told Father to calm down and he took him out of the flat. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The night before a planned protest, boycott, or stay-away, the leaders of the event would go underground in order to foil the police swoop that inevitably took place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband had been a police officer, a detective, who had lost his life in the line of duty, she said as she served us more and more of the delicious sweet bread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You can’t just go to the police. They may try to lock up Brady for being part of this.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A group of men soon appeared, accompanied by several police officers with their batons drawn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The chief of police looked up, but did not acknowledge the comment. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My interview was on the opposite side of town from where Scott lives, but I took a taxi from the police station. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time his case reached the Supreme Court, sixteen people had been killed by police use of the chokehold, twelve of them black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe you actually called the police, Jenny. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But when the police cars all pulled up in front of Big Joe’s and the cops came out with their guns drawn we knew something serious was going on. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Jewish police surreptitiously went to fill a few jugs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A photo montage of angry protestors with placards outside police headquarters. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I began answering questions and listening to comments and testimonials about Walter, the town, race, the police, the trial, and the way the whole family was now being treated by people in the community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He knew I had gone to the police—and after I’d assured him everything would be all right! Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“At the Deuce, and they called the police,” Luke blurted out. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’d never given the police any trouble, and when that black spy soldier had tried to tip me, I had waved it away, telling him I was just doing him a favor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all I was thinking at that particular moment was that the police could not kick down the door. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

And Cissy says the police—their faces were so red. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Well, I saw that the yellow police tape is down. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Forrest asked a police officer if the suicide note could be a forgery. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We need scientific answers, which is why I have called in the county police. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been too sick to work, and the factory sent the police, and when Helena didn’t know where I was, they beat her.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Carroll later said that “amazed” him: How brazen was this man, who didn't run at the sight of the police? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Most were convinced that the police had forced him to confess. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Using their clout with the downtown police department, they posted three hundred mounted police in the Stock Yard to break up union gatherings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Thumps came from behind the police car, where Collins had dragged Doc after he brought him to the ground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some onlookers—both black and white—threw bottles and rocks at the police. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many Junior Patrol members went on to join the police academy when they got older. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In hushed tones, Josiah told his teammates sitting near him what he had seen: Coach Luma was in a police car. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Is something wrong? Do the police suspect my apartment?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Outside, my dad, Violet, and three police officers surround the open window of Officer Jameson’s squad car. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

One day we heard on the radio that a woman in the suburbs had seen a mountain lion behind her house and had called the police, who shot the animal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just past our house, the police have stopped a car, and the passengers are getting out with their hands in the air. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In January 1919, after the police detained Middleton and his companion, the private detective interrogated them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The police arrived, and I took offense when they shouted that this was not a show. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Near Monroe, Georgia, about an hour east of Atlanta, Luma was cruising in the right-hand lane when she looked out the driver’s-side window and saw a Georgia state police car riding alongside her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was the first to be called and I was ushered over to the front gate of the prison where I was briefly released in front of a group of police officers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read too that Frank Geyer, a Philadelphia police detective who had interviewed him in June, was now in the Midwest searching for Pitezel’s children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Horse hooves dopped down a nearby path, maybe a mounted police patrol. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There are people in Scott’s garden—there are two uniformed police just outside the back door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not stringing you along. Look, it’s like you said. You talk to the police, everybody loses. You wait till Monday, everybody wins.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Get back, there . . . !” Things were getting out of hand and the police tried to get people to move across the street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of police officers chatted jovially, drinking coffee. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The police cleared a path for him, and War Admiral, his head low, was led back to the barn to the lonely clapping of a handful of fans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You two stay here with Bo, while I go and have a look at our visitors. If there's trouble”—he handed Ida his cell phone—“call the police.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But police involvement was more of a last resort. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The police have been hanging around the school a lot, interviewing kids and keeping their eyes open. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“A brand-new blue mountain bike, too expensive to replace, unfortunately. The police thought teenagers from your neighborhood might have taken it. Apparently theft is a problem on the farm.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

All the kids go to Tony’s because he sells beer to anyone and for some reason the police leave him alone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

If something really bad happened, the police would think it was another false alarm and not come. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Garcías were only legal residents, not citizens, but for the police to mistake Mami for a citizen was a compliment too great to spare a child discomfort. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Today’s the day you started doing time at the police station. Too bad about that. I’ve been home practicing my lay-up shot.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man called the police and in minutes the street was full of police cars and emergency vehicles. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point in my life I realised that, willy-nilly, black people had to map out their lives, their future, with the terror of the police in mind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the one the police stopped on Twenty-third Street in the middle of a workday. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Still, it is fair to wonder why the police would choose to arrest such an astonishing percentage of the American public for minor drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Boston police had hoped that by going out on strike they would gain the public’s sympathy and would force the city to give in to their demands for better wages and working conditions. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He had joined the police force because he wanted to solve crimes and arrest criminals. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I joined the boxers and for the first few weeks of the separation we trained at an uncomfortable place for a freedom fighter, the police gymnasium. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a police officer,” he said with authority. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My heart is aching to see my mother in a locked police car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police—plastic swords versus batons. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Somebody tell me you in trouble with a police. Is that right?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telling police I’m obsessed with her and her ugly brat? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet everything that the police are en route. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The police were here. They thought you had done this to me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And we would cover the courts and the police stations and the Fire Department and the Coast Guard out on Lake Michigan and all that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t only the number of police that changed in the 1990s; consider the most commonly cited crime-drop explanation of all: innovative policing strategies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My mother was taken by the police to the hospital, and to a room where a sheet was over my father in a bed, and she wouldn’t look, she was afraid to look. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But police, railroad security agents, or la migra could bar the doors, trapping him inside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The docks at Cape Town were swarming with armed police and nervous plainclothes officials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few police stand in the buffer zone but not enough of them, it seems, if any real trouble flares up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, he was just fifteen miles inside Mexico, in Tapachula, when two municipal police officers grabbed him and put him in the back of their pickup. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The May Day parade in Cleveland spawned even greater violence, where mounted police and soldiers in trucks and tanks clashed with Socialist marchers who were sympathetic to the Communist cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The cover image in the local paper is a crowd of people with hand-lettered signs camped outside the police station where Franklin was brought and released hours later. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the mid-1920s, according to the city’s police commissioner, New York had thirty-two thousand of the illegal drinking spots. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He would live, but the girls were all talking to the police now. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Many of the incidents indicated to me that the police, rather than quelling violence, were fomenting it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later workers scuffled with police outside City Hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The drive to Bechuanaland was trying, as I was nervous both about the police and the fact that I had never crossed the boundaries of my country before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start with what I should have told the police nine months ago. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After we filed in, a group of police officers formed a tight cordon between us and the spectators. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a police officer catches a juvenile doing something, he’s reluctant to arrest him. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I was little, me and my friends used to think this police station looked like a moon base. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At that point in American history, no police department fired its guns more than that of Prince George’s County. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As they pulled to the side of the building, Zeitoun saw police cars and military vehicles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The situation was immediately made worse by certain members of the striking police force, who circulated through the crowds, encouraging them to create even larger disturbances. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Justice is trying to work with the police. With lawyers. Trying to change the system.” she said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Much of it came from poorly paid state functionaries whose livelihoods depended on using police and administrative authority to extract cash from upstart capitalists. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He said he would need to take measurements at the site of the accident for police records. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black and white demonstrators, guarded by police, conduct a wade-in at a segregated beach in St. Augustine, Florida, June 29, 1964. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We soon heard the siren of another police car as it pulled up behind the first. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

To stand up to the police in America was to take the nation’s promise of justice for all at face value. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“If you heard I’d committed some great crime would you turn me over to the police?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The police never found the boy who carved “LEAVE” into my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Anna called them—she called the police, she did everything. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train trundled west as darkness fell, police lights still pulsing against the St. Louis skyline behind us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“This is an unlawful assembly,” the police chief announced through a loudspeaker. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. But I was watching the police car coming up the road so I wasn’t watching where I was going and I went off the sidewalk and fell off my bike. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All four doors of the police Humber were wide open, and three constables were waiting by it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boys yanked their strings and water cascaded down, not only on the Yugoslavians but also on some German police cadets who were trying to quiet them down. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A police detective had discovered that Theodore Johnson’s airline ticket was purchased over the Internet and that the same computer had also purchased a ticket to Costa Rica for someone named Denise Linaria. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Two hostages, it turned out, had been seriously injured by the inmates, but ten hostages and twenty-nine inmates were then killed by police in the attack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Come in," he whispered, and as I entered the room I turned and saw him peek out the doorway as if I might have been followed by the police. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. The people who did this are shameless cowards. They won’t dare to come back. And even if they try, we are working with the police to set up additional security.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Only if you have the key to this door,” one of the police officers growled. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Today her mother had just heard rumors that fifty people had been killed by the Communists at the police station. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In Chicago he found, to his surprise, that the city’s police department knew nothing about Holmes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The police were constantly harassing her and questioning her about why she didn't work and why she didn't have a baby. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

To have your front door blown off its hinges and the police rush in. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The New York City police investigators who were pursuing the case were unhappy that Malcolm’s followers had “not come forward” to aid the investigation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They jeer at the police, cursing them violently, and shout encouragement to those trying to break in. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I could call the police and… But the truth is, I didn’t know what to hope for. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of the shooting, policemen hustled Charles Guiteau from the railroad depot and dragged him two blocks to the police station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not even me as a police cruiser rolled up around the corner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In Boston, four speakeasies were located on the same block as police headquarters. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But Marshall had to go, and he wanted April to come, too, and the police seemed to think that she might remember something that would be useful. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

White and African police and members of the Special Branch milled around, taking photographs, writing in notebooks, and trying unsuccessfully to intimidate the delegates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt turned a corner and saw a female police officer helping an injured man in a suit limp down the street. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo thought of all the dead bodies outside the police station. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I sat there in the police station—arrested for suspicion of grand theft auto, a plausible suspect for carjacking or murder—and debated whether I should call my parents or go to jail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They want me to climb on board and buy a ticket to the Mount Pitts police station. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Joe walked away from the murder scene, dropped the knife in a nearby alley, and headed to a pay phone to call his father, but the police had beaten him to it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If police were on their way, freaking out wouldn’t help. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The intense rage of the arresting officers and the racist taunts and threats from uniformed police officers who did not know him were shocking. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The police had called it an accident, but of course they would have. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Can you call the police on the police? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The most dangerous time was during the curfew, when fugitives could not be out on the street and the police could hunt them down at will. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, Chicago’s acting chief of police continued to insist that he was “very well pleased with conditions.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The first time, at the police station, nobody seemed very interested in my case. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

His statements quickly make their way to police authorities. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The police had come, just when Detective Inspector Pearce had told me they would. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the police department, to be sure, pulled out and carefully studied the files on the Nation of Islam, and appraised us with new eyes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom went off in a Palestinian police car. She made me stay here to tell you. She is very very upset.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many are caught by the Mexican police or by la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who take them south to Guatemala. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I do remember that the police were called. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The police siren wail was from that day.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Even there well-wishers almost overwhelmed her, until finally the police were able to clear a passageway through the crowd and escort the singer to a waiting car. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Officer David Delinko had made a habit of driving past the construction site every morning on the way to the police station, and again every afternoon on his way. home. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine, let’s go settle this once and for all. But afterwards, you have one minute to get off my property before I call the police.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gustanos stiffened at the sight of the police, but Finn, whom they seemed to trust the most now, whispered to them, “No, no, these police are good guys. Everything’s okay.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the very least, she would want me to make sure the police were trying to catch Nicole’s attacker. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The police declared there had been no foul play but did not conduct an investigation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sandy and Max came to remove the police tape surrounding me. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was his demeanor, or the latex gloves on Jerome Paisley’s hands, or the fact that he was the one who had shouted at Rosemary to call the police. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

One by one, every paper, pamphlet, document, book, notebook, letter, magazine, and clipping that the police had accumulated in the last three years of searches was produced and numbered; twelve thousand in all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll call my parents. Or go to a police station, or something. I’m sure there’s a poster of my face in every precinct in Britain by now, knowing my dad.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Small fires flared in the streets as police cars arrived and sirens sounded. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Newspapers reported that hundreds of nurses and doctors called the Newark police to volunteer their help with the injured. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

One day they were everywhere, policing everyone, indoctrinating the villagers on Communism. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

If the protest became more than the police could handle, the fully armed troops could be brought onto the streets instantly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He watched protestors taunting cops and smashing windows, police tossing tear gas and bashing heads with nightsticks. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hana and all her friends wear black armbands to show their support for the Black people who’ve died when dealing with the police. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The guy’s friends had called the police, who arrested the Iceman and ran a check on him, which revealed that the Iceman had walked from a work-release program eighteen months earlier. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He remembered how his mother’s family had balked at the idea that the police had a permanent presence at school when they’d heard at Thanksgiving the past year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The store manager apologized and they held her until the police came. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

An intellectually disabled black woman living in Choctaw County, Alabama, Ms. Banks was accused of killing her newborn child even though police had no credible basis for believing she had ever been pregnant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A slow-moving police car was coming up the path. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I recall that you bought a motorcycle, and vaguely remember you had some trouble with it—chased by the police?—crackup? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the truck came, timed with the police patrols, it would be loaded and gone within a few minutes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to do something to help those kids. If I tell the police what happened, it will be cooperation.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Almost as an afterthought, she adds, “Something to do with getting your grandfather from the police.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

And then I hear another screech—the screech of a police siren. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know where she was, or how to call the police. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“We’re going the wrong way! The police have officers all over 8th Street! Go back the other way!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The police officers—two big guys in tall black boots—parked and followed her up onto the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He can do his regular howl, which ain’t much, or he can howl like a police siren or an ambulance. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

While there were no witnesses, police determined from evidence at the scene that Smith, crazed with grief and rage, then turned the gun on himself. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The nearby Check In Check Out deli had just been looted, and the police were looking for anyone who might have benefited. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes! So now they think the children are stealing from them and they called the police—” “The police? The police are coming after the hungry childrens?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

OK, so she was furious and even threatened to call the Las Vegas police and report my friend’s license plate number. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The police called me to come get my delinquent daughter.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I am in the back of the police car, squeezed in between my mom and Auntie Seema. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In my neighborhood, the police never get out of their cars unless it is to arrest someone or harass them with questions. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that a steady rain driven by a chilling wind continued to blow across the Langer See almost continuously, and that the police barracks soon proved cold and drafty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The arrests also included Arthur Goldreich, who had 'driven into the farm as the police raid was in progress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a police car going along the road that ran past the campsites. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the grown-ups driving by will call the police, but it’s okay because I don’t do drugs or spray paints. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He never asked the police or his parents about the phone call to the tip line. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

An ANC colleague in Lobatse had recently been kidnapped by the South African police and I thought the sooner we could leave, the better. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National Guard patrols a Detroit street after police raided a blind pig, setting off riots, 1967. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It's the police officer who trapped my mom in the car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Jimmy found her, he didn’t call the police. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police seemed uninterested, so Mrs. Harrison decided to protect herself. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She said the police officer who came in with the ambulance told her that the car involved in the accident was a red Chevette. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gondwannans and the She Elephant were packed off in police vans. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to push through the crowd to see what was going on inside the police line. “. . . an adolescent boy,” another reporter was saying. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My parents shuffle me into the backseat of the chief of police’s car and shut the door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Tears for every name of unarmed black men and women I know of who’ve been assaulted or murdered by the police are inked on the page. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He hired thousands of men to clean streets and ordered police stations opened at night for men seeking a place to sleep. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The collector, a clever criminal himself, would pay Glitts sixty million dollars for her, but wanted a guarantee that the police would never trace the theft. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But I did see that they put the lady cop who shot you in the back of a police car. She was crying.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In the last two months, Lewis and Clark have been rescued twice by the fire department and three times by the police. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

About three-thirty the next morning I heard sirens again and I looked out the window and saw that there were two police cars and an ambulance down in the street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that evening Aunt Leanne called Gay and told her that my mother’s car had broken down and that the police had arrested her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I began a folder of questions with both answers and hypotheses and was still absorbed in my detective work when the police arrived for a surprise visit at 7:30 am. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

In recent years, dozens of people have been killed by police in the course of these raids, including elderly grandparents and those who are completely innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Myers claimed to have committed the Vickie Pittman murder under the direction of another local sheriff; he laid out to us a widespread conspiracy involving police, drug dealing, and money laundering. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Their next-door neighbors are there, too, mostly because Mark and Linda were afraid that they would call the police because of all the noise, but they seem to be having a great time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t quite understand what Natalie meant when she talked about Ms. Morales calling social services, but he could see why it would be a problem to call the police. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some even run behind the police car as it slowly navigates past gawking people, parked and stopped cars, and limo coaches. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While I was studying to be an anthropologist, I was also working as a police reporter for the famous Chicago City News Bureau for twenty-eight dollars a week. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another police officer watched a drunk man spit chewing tobacco in an older woman’s face; when someone complained to him, he said, “There would be nothing like this if you would stay at home.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But if we don’t have any news by tomorrow,” Phoebe said, “we should definitely call the police. We’ve waited too long already. What if she’s tied up somewhere and waiting for us to rescue her?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But four kids sleeping in an unfinished house—that would be police business. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we were walking out the door excited about our excursion, Cecile called out, “I'm not coming down to no police station if you’re out there stealing. Y'all have to spend the night in jail.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dan was only split through the head with the pig-shaped weather vane that flew off a barn. Now let me see that police report.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The next day the police discovered another hidden chamber, this one at the cellar’s southwest corner. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The police might not have caught him, but after a week passed, he bragged about the break-in at school. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“You don’t want to involve the police. Maybe you want to think it over and come back in the morning.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He ran back to the phone and called 911, then sat next to his mother until the police arrived. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They think we are saying all police are bad and we hate them. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The driver was released from the hospital, and police are investigating whether he was driving while intoxicated. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Second, the new police strategies were accompanied by a much more significant change within the police force: a hiring binge. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When a marked police car joined the pursuit, Antonio dropped the gun just before the car crashed into some trees. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The police are allowed by the courts to conduct fishing expeditions for drugs on streets and freeways based on nothing more than a hunch. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And it never occurred to you that this stalker Bellstone might be worth mentioning to the police in terms of investigating Immie’s disappearance?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was preparing myself for the return of the police. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They ask him to protect them against bandits, who rob and beat them; police, who shake them down; and la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who deport them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The more I heard about Kamal, the more I knew that I was right: I was right to speak to the police about him, I was right to contact Scott. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if that guy had called the police? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She said the police were really after the two who had been arrested with her. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote a confidential memorandum to the police, instructing them to look out for rebellious young people who brawled, made mischief, and violated police orders. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If YouTube kept track of individual views, the police definitely would have been sent to my house by now, I’d seem like such a stalker. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A checkered flag waves and our cars speed off, zipping down virtual city streets and jumping over police cars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Why wasn’t the matter reported to the police in the first place, the Inspector wanted to know. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked if he could find out at the police station. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhere a police siren wails thinly, up and down, up and down, regular tempo, crisis under control, just like Gerhard. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There he had hung for a day and a half, swinging against the sky, until the mounted police arrived and cut him down. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little after midnight, while everybody was sound asleep and snoring and dreaming, the police invaded the neighbourhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in Monroe County began to whisper about the incompetence of the police. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The crowd again started cheering and made aggressive gestures in the direction of the police. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I left it by the back door of the police station with a note saying I’d found it in the woods. I don’t think anyone saw me.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the police came, they recognized the woman as the mayor’s niece and arrested Tar Baby. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier wore a black MP band around his arm, “MP” for military police. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Every police siren, every drunken hoot—every sound that night triggered the same thought: “They might be coming for me.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were the police smashing their way into the house from all sides? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One guy in his bathrobe was on a cellular phone and I figured he was talking to the police. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Doyle’s voice, bragging to the police officer that Amanda and I are two of the smartest kids at Wagner, rings in my head. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“The police came. They were dressed like protesters too.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“When the alarm came” meant people leaping over fences in a mad dash to escape the police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To confirm the story, some phoned their local newspapers, radio stations, or the police. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z