Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-13
THE LONDON POLICE.
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 LONDON, Juno 3.-For the life of me cannot avoid drawing q contrast between the police in London and the police at home in New York. In London they arc band of courteous public servants who are willing to obl!gc and give information to sss-ybOdy. In New York they are a proved set of offensive blackguartls and bullies This is hard and straight to the point way of putting 1t, but it is tho truth, ths proved truth. And again, no man can say that I am going back on America or am an anglOmaniac. lOvc America above all other places, and hate to have to lis ten in silence to the sarcastic allusions English newspaper men make to me con- corning tho mock liberty that exists at homo in New Yd.k.
 Tho average wage of London police- man is about 24 shillngs week (S6) and even if he had the desire therc is no show for him to levy blackmail. Contrast this with tho salaries paid the patrolmen at homo and their opportunities, and rcmem- Der also that money goes pretty nearly as far in New York as it does in London.
 I have lived in London now for thrce months and have discovered n strange fact.
 
 much more liberty than he has in New York. Think of 1t Here in the great town of an old monarchy there is actually moro freedom than there is in tho great town of n new republic. It ought not to be true, but it Is true. In Hyde park you will hear men and women saying things for which they would be arrested and given h years imprisonment in New York, and still London is q most orderly town. Vest the police of New York understand the art of lowing blackmnil, but they don't un- derstand the art of conducting an orderly town, and why men should have more freedom under n mOnarchical form of gov ernmcnt than under a republican, form is a riddle the solving of which I leave to others. And people wonder at Americans becoming anglomaniacs. I'm beginning not to wonder at it at all If things go on as they are going much longer, we might as well institute monarchy at once and have done with it, or, what would be much nearer tho mark, institute an autocracy.
 Tho principle of the London policeman is to keep and preserve tho peace, restore order and sec that there is no breakage of the law. The principle of the New York policeman is to break tho peace, aggravate disorder and have tho law broken so that he may bC able to levy blackmail. At least this is the principle he acts upon. Tho following will illustrate the attitude of the London policeman toward those that como within his supervision. At about 10 o'clock last Sunday night as I was sauntcring along ThrradncCtilC street, 1 saw two men fighting in the entrance way of public house. They wCrc at 1t hammer and tongs, and l watched thCm for n short while till suddenly up came policeman. At once he rushed in between them, and after a great deal of difficulty, in which he was knocked about considerably himself he managed to part them. I noticed that all through the scufllc he never attempted to strike either of them himself. Imagine a New York policeman doing this. After parting them he cxpostuulatcd with them and advised them to go home. Then both began to tell him the story of their gricv anCc II" listened patiently and iudicially to them, and when they were through Inc adv yiscd them to go home again. They took his advice, and then he calmly re- stunned his beat He had fulfilled his duty hy restoring the peace
 Even in the lowest and most dangerous parts of London the policemen show dis position to perform their duties in a fair and humane way. If the roughs arc doing anything out of tho way, they meet and talk tU them aS man tO man, and only ar rest them in a case of necessity. Often in Waterloo road and along New Cut I sec them in the act of arguing the point with unkcmpt looking, roughly clad men and boys. I suppose if were to speak to a bulldozing, blackmailing police captain nt home of this way of handling tho rough element of city, Inc would tell mo that 1t was all wrong because it taught tho peo- pie not to bo afraid of tho law. But he himself would be in tho wrong. In tho first place, he would show that he knew nothing at all of human nature, because the best way to get the best out of people is by appealing to their reason and senSo of propricty and not by pistoling and club ping them. And, again, why should peo- plo bo made afraid of the lawf Why shouldn't it be helpful and protectful to them?
 Tho way that tho London police handle n great crowd Is magnificent. You never sec a club raised or hear a hard word used. Tho police nrn courteous and civil, and tho people pay attention to any request they may havoto make. AprOpos of this let mo tell you of what onCc saw in Chicago. It was during a big celebration, and tho streets w"rc throngcd. The police had to clear n passage through n dense crowd of people. How did they do it? Why, simply by Cursing at, showing and pushing them, and when they wcrc unable to get out of tho way fast enough by murdcrously club hing them. l saw the blood of free Amer ican citizens fall upon tho stones because, likc q lot of frightened rats, they were un- ablo tn obey pOliccman's order fast enough.
 This order of things exists in greater or lesser dcgrc" in every big city in Amer ica It is perhaps at its worst in New York, but policrmanism is the same char actcr all over tho States. And am sorry to say that tho policemen arc In the main 1 men of my own racr-lrishmcn. As see the way the police manage things here in London n keen sense of duty makes me | write this letter as strongly and as much | to the point as possible.
 BART KENNEDY.