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Herbert Hoover: “If the police had the vigilant, universal backing of public opinion in their communities, if they had the implacable…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1931
If the police had the vigilant, universal backing of public opinion in their communities, if they had the implacable support of the prosecuting authorities and the courts, if our criminal laws in their endeavor to protect the innocent did not furnish loopholes through which irresponsible, yet clever, criminal lawyers daily find devices of escape for the guilty, I am convinced that our police would stamp out the excessive crime and remove the worldwide disrepute which has disgraced some of our great cities.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California
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Radio Remarks to the Annual Convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police

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