2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, inCapitalisn't[1]:
Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see thatSicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or theSicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?
The picture of devastated Palermo which he draws fills up the measure of the dastardly oppression which has now passed away; more disgraceful excesses than those committed by the Bavarese, as theSicilians called the royal troops, were [...]