If not and you call the cops, he could make real trouble for you.

要是你没有证据，又去报了警，他可以给你制造好多麻烦的。

youdao

He defended himself, saying the cops just happened to be in the neighborhood.

他为自己进行辩护，说交警们只是碰巧在那里。

youdao

The California guy apparently thought this was something to avoid, so he called the cops, and the cops brought in the FBI.

这个加利福尼亚的家伙清醒地认识到这种事情要避免发生，所以他通知了警察，而警察请来了FBI。

youdao

And unlike many of his scholar-peers, he respects cops enough to listen to them and take their advice seriously.

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As mayor he put more cops on the streets and prosecuted the window-breakers and streetwalkers, whose violations erode respect for the whole system.

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He kills two cops and an informant in Paris before proceeding to his most infamous exploit: the kidnapping of an entire roomful of OPEC ministers, in Vienna.

NEWYORKER: Carlos