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“There were three men, and one of them shot her, and the cops are looking for him right now … They have their guns out,” the neighbor said.

As Martin muses about what, say, “‘Prime Suspect’ would look like with Martin the lead” — ”I’m 38, I can play a cop” — they laugh.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aggressively wooing recruits with experience slapping handcuffs on suspects: sheriff’s deputies, state troopers and local cops.

“In general, in the neighborhood we don’t want to call the cops because they’re not going to solve anything or they’re going to arrest someone, or beat someone or shoot someone,” he said.

“I’m like, he’s a cop, he can’t be that crazy. He’s on the force for a reason ... of course he knows where I live,” she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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