“ If kids accomplish something like arts and music, they’re more inclined not to give up later on. I support the arts because I want fewer people in my jail.
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The best possible reason for supporting the arts voiced by San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey (a native of Iowa).
quoted in Keeping California alive with the arts by Michael Alexander and Malissa Feruzzi Shriver, an editorial today in the Pasadena Star News
I wonder how Sheriff Hennessey feels about gangster rap?