"They’s a car with six men parked down by the euc’lyptus trees, an’ they’s one with four men up that northside road. I ast ’em for a match. They got guns."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 24. A boy from Weedpatch alerts the committee about a large force of police ready and waiting to storm into the camp. The corruption of law enforcement is shown here, the police being part of a conspiracy to incite a riot in the camp. They are waiting for the signal that agent provocateurs have started the trouble so that police have a reason to move in.