"Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break."
"The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct."
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Source: Writer Bill James. The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.
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