David Simon and Ed Burns wrote the following passage for the TV show, "The Wire" spoken by Bunny Colvin:

<<<< I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors. They gonna be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up body counts. And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policing, that's just occupied territory. >>>>

This was written in 2004. With the passage of time, it seems more and more prescient.