policeman

• Of course when American patriotism speaks out from its rank and file and demands action or expression, and when, thereupon, the 'business man,' so called places his hand on his stack of reds as if he feared a policeman were about to disturb the game, and protests until American patriotism ceases to continue to speak as it had started to do why, you and I get mad, and I swear. —  Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
• I came to America to be told that a policeman is a boy's natural enemy; that he is eager to arrest him if he can find the slightest reason for doing so. —  A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
• The last she saw of the policeman was his tall figure under an arc-lamp as he tramped stolidly onwards on his beat. —  Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose - Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 29
• The blue-clad body of a policeman was the mountain from which this streak of crimson spilled The cadaver hung from the window by a rope around the neck. —  009 - The Czar of Fear
• (Or, as Mayor Richard J. Daley famously misstated it: "the policeman is there to preserve disorder.") —  The Chicago Blog

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