Q&A …

… The Cousins Karamazov, David Simon interviews Richard Price - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

But at some point, I want to go to the police, I want to go to the people who live in the world [where] the police are a constant presence, and I feel just the same way about them: “Thank you for inviting me into the house of your life,” and I’m going to treat them with the same open-eyed empathy. If I have to tell you, “This is a bad cop,” if I have to tell you, “This guy is a scumbag and deserves to be collared because he is just a bad seed grown to adulthood”—if I have to tell you that, it’s boring. I just want to present people and let you decide what it’s about.