Yes, they make arrests, just enough to save their faces, but we can't convict because, despite my efforts, juries are bribed and witnesses intimidated.
11 seconds sound clip from the The Oklahoma Kid (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:30:07 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- All right, boys. He's only a floater. Get on with your play.
- Shootings, killings, robberies, and a mighty orgy of drunkenness, gambling, and vice...
- All directly traceable to McCord's influence.
- Why, he owns our mayor, our sheriff, and half our deputies.
- Either McCord and his crowd run this town or we do.
- I know. I've been wondering how much longer this could go on...
- But we made a mistake in the first place in making a deal with him.
[...]