<P> Police officers on patrol in our nation's cities often work in environments where a hugely disproportionate percentage of street crime is committed by young men of color . Something happens to people of good will working in that environment . After years of police work, officers often can't help be influenced by the cynicism they feel . A mental shortcut becomes almost irresistible . </P> <P> In October 2015, Comey gave a speech raising concerns that body worn video results in less effective policing, contradicting the President's public position . Days later, President Obama met with Comey in the Oval Office to address the issue . In an October 23 speech at the University of Chicago Law School, Comey said: </P> <P> I remember being asked why we were doing so much prosecuting in black neighborhoods and locking up so many black men . After all, Richmond was surrounded by areas with largely white populations . Surely there were drug dealers in the suburbs . My answer was simple: We are there in those neighborhoods because that's where people are dying . These are the guys we lock up because they are the predators choking off the life of a community . We did this work because we believed that all lives matter, especially the most vulnerable . </P> <P> In April 2015, Comey spoke at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, arguing in favor of more Holocaust education . After The Washington Post printed a version of his speech, Anne Applebaum wrote that his reference to "the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary" was inaccurately saying that Poles were as responsible for the Holocaust as Germans . His speech was also criticized by Polish authorities, and Stephen D. Mull, United States Ambassador to Poland, was called to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Applebaum wrote that Comey, "in a speech that was reprinted in The Post arguing for more Holocaust education, demonstrated just how badly he needs it himself". </P>

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