Is the NYPD a force unto itself, untamable, as dark sometimes as the streets it patrols?

And when we encounter the untamable, in order to safeguard ourselves, we must turn it back into the wilderness, an outlaw.

For, though he is the very best fellow in the world, when he is in a rage he is untamable.

He belonged to the most untamable of his people, and had proven a continual stumbling-block in the path of the missionary.