Race Police To Arrest All Law Breakers; No Restrictions--The Idea Of Such A Thing Absurd, Says Commonwealth Attorney Otte
Louisville is to have six real policemen selected from a large number of applicants from among the colored people, and not "tin cops" with limited authority as was given out through the daily papers last Saturday. For many years the colored people who have been almost solid supporters and voters of the Republican party in this city, which would never win a victory without the Negro vote, have asked for a fair, reasonable and sensible consideration of the things which some to a victorious political party, among which has been the appointment of colored men as officers in uniform. The Republican leaders have promised time and again, to satisfy some of the wants of the colored people, but not until after the recent election has the matter of police in uniform been acted upon with any certainty. Enthusiasm and Then Resentment. The news that five well known men out of the number of applicants had been decided upon to do patrol duty in the colored sections, was greeted with great e
 nthusiasm and satisfaction, but when the Courier-Journal announced that Prof. George S. Ragsdale, the police training school, said that the colored officers would be instructed to arrest no white persons, resentment and dissatisfaction was heard on every side, even among fair minded white citizens. One remark after the other was heard. "Are these men to be tin soldiers or police," was asked. "What kind of police is one who has a badge, a club, a gun and vested with all the authority of an officer of the law, but must arrest only Negro law breakers?" "It means that white criminals can invade the colored districts at will, break any law they please, and when seen by a colored so-called policeman, the figure head must call a real policeman, a white officer, before the white lawbreaker can be arrested." "No Negro should accept a place on the force under such limitations," are among the things said which showed how much opposition there was to such an idea. Such an Order Absurd, 
 Says Otte. After the report was out it was reliably stated that Prof. Ragsdale had given no such order, that even though there were many who perhaps opposed the appointment of colored officers in uniform, it was thought just and wise, and that, since it was finally concluded to do so, that they would be full fledged officrs of the law like white officers and would arrest all law breakers, white and black. When approached on the subject, Mr. Clarke Otte, Commonwealth Attorney, said that it is absurd, (Continued of page 8).

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