What incident as a child in a police station helped to shape Alfred Hitchcock’s sensibilities?

His father punished Alfred Hitchcock for a since-forgotten offense by sending him to the police station with a note.

The chief of police read it and locked Hitchcock up for five to ten minutes, saying, “This is what we do to naughty boys.”

Hitchcock was four or five years old at the time.

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