YOU CAN'T JUST CONJURE UP CIVILIZATION

-- "After spending over $21 billion trying to train a national police force in Afghanistan, the United States splurged on equipment rather than focusing on institutional reform and churned out police trainees who were effectively 'barely qualified mall guards,' per an international observer." --

YOU THINK I'M KIDDING?

-- "Between 70 and 90 percent of the graduates of Police Training Centers were illiterate. They were incapable of taking notes, reading warrants, or jotting down license plate numbers." --

IT GETS BETTER BY WHICH I MEAN WORSE

-- "State police had been 'extorting and beating locals' and 'regularly abducting and raping young boys.'" --

A LITTLE BIT OF AFGHANISTAN IN THE USA

-- "In 2017, BuzzFeed News published an investigation into accusations that retired Chicago detective Reynaldo Guevara had framed more than 50 people for murders they did not commit. Since then, at least 20 people have already been exonerated in cases that Guevara led." --