Note 233 — Chapter V · REGULATION AND ORDER—THE STREETS
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The attention of the police is occasionally called by letters, usually anonymous, to women accused of professional prostitution. In these instances the police proceed with great caution, investigating fully all the persons involved before taking any action whatsoever. “Experience teaches that totally erroneous misconceptions of what constitutes the offence in question usually characterize charges made by private individuals, or that the charges spring from revenge, envy, or gossip.” Inspector Penzig, head of Sittenabteilung, Berlin.