Herbert Hoover actually said...

There is too much tendency on the part of some people to forget the devoted work of the police, to forget the safety of society and the victims of criminals out of sympathy with criminals themselves.

Context

Letter to the Acting Attorney General on the District of Columbia Police Force.

08/26/1931

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