[UA] Explain American laws to me

[stuartanderson at uswest.net]

Kevin Mowery wrote:

>
> >
> > We've had lotteries here for years, along with 'Instant Scratch-its' and
> so on.
>
>     We've had 'em for a while, too.  There's a long, long history of
> lotteries in America . . . lemme see . . . since at least 1776 when the
> Continental Congress held one to help pay expenses for that little
> revolution thing.  Most of the proceeds disappeared into the pockets of the
> lottery's organizers.

I thought the lottery was a tax on people that won't do math.

>     If you're planning on having a lot of cops in your game, I recommend
> David Simon's _Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets_.  The book is
> nonfiction set in Baltimore, which is far away from nearly everyplace you're
> considering, but the principles of American policework are pretty much the
> same everywhere, and if you use the Baltimore PD's organization in another
> city, odds are no one in your game will ever question it.  Heck, I recommend
> it even if you don't use the police a lot.  It's just a good sourcebook for
> law enforcement.

Awesome book. A good one for the daily grind of an FBI agent is _Burn, Sugar
Burn_ by Gary Clifton.



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