"Listen to me, Freddy.
You know the difference between men and boys?
Boys bet everything on everything.
Boys think every hand is a royal flush.
You play cards with a man, he knows his limits.
Freddy, I invited men...
cops, good men...
to live in this town.
And these men, to make a living, they cross that bridge every day...
to a place where everything is upside down.
Where the cop is the perp, and the perp is the victim.
But they play by the rules.
They keep their guns in their holsters, and they play by the rules.
The only thing they did was to get their families out...
before it got to them.
We made a place where things make sense...
and you can walk across the street without fear.
And you come to me with a plan to set things right.
Everyone in this city holding hands, singing "We Are the World."
That's very nice.
But, Freddy, your plan is the plan of a boy.
You made it on the back of a matchbook without thinking!
Without looking at the cards.
I look at the cards.
I see this town...
destroyed.
Now, that's not what you want, is it?"