Brillo by Ben Bova (w/H. Ellison):
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"The new form of beat-cop was just what people always said they wanted-the perfect "government of laws, not of men." But like most perfectly logical things, it wasn't what they really needed..."


('Brillo' by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison)

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