"For the past hundred years, every seller in the tear gas business has spent thousands—if not millions—in legal settlements. They have watched as their products are used to kill, maim, and torture people around the world. They have bought new houses, seen their children off to school, perhaps spent $150,000 at a Christie’s auction to acquire historic souvenirs. Investigating the financial lives of the elite is crucial for understanding how the security industry operates.

Riot control is, and always has been, in the business of protecting the wealth of a tiny minority."

— Anna Feigenbaum, Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today