The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-29

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any reason he may judge that sonses
thing is doing ON another<s beat and
goes to investigate, which is right
and proper, for the other polfcents 4
may be sfsklssae Sffemes bther end OF
MS beat, the Investigating officer
is in danger Of rcprin1and for leas-
ing their uerrifory comprising his beat
We do not wish to criticise the
rules and regulations Of the chief OF
police. He knows his business bet
ter than we do. But what we do
want to impress upon our city dads
is the urgent need OF special mounted
police for the protection of the resi-
dent part of the city We do moi
doubt but that our chief is doing all
In his power to give the city the best
projection he can with his small force
II the city cannot stand the expense
pf four of these extra amounted POI
lice man, two at least should be en-
ployed. Good trustworthy and COM
petent men should make this mounted
acquisition. They should be men
who can. be depended upon TO do their
duty, and men that the chief can
know are doing their full duty during
the time of their watch
There are many reas9ns why these
mounted men should be added to
the force Here are few of them
If anything occurs where three or
four OF the patrol1nen are needed
t leaves that part of the city from
which they are called without protec-
ion for the time tlkp are called
away, and while nothing may be do
ing on their beats during their neees
sary absence still the precautien &c
protect all parts OF this city would BIZ
very wise one Mounted poIicem :
could cover a large district, and be-
ing mounted they. could quickly re
spond to any ernergenucy call ant
leave the patrolmen at their posts.
AS everybody knows Saturdas
nights are generally very busy ones
for the polls ensen, and there should
be more of them. In the
north end of the city, along Poplar
street and Fish Lake road, the ne
| groes sometimes make these locali-
ties hideous with their cursing ane
drinking and very frequently thes<
drunken negroes do no wait until
they get outside of the city limits be
lore they begin perforating the .atmes
phere with their pistols and guns.
| IF we had mounted police one o.
Them could easily put a stop to thi.
| in a few weeks. The negroes wtoulc
rot be long in learning that a mount
| ID policemen is near at hand and car
overtake them before they have trav
eted far This same applies to al
| the streets that are traversed by the
! country negroes who come to towr
| 10 tank up
The negro killing Sunday Is til,
latest happening that Shows why W.
should have mounted police. AS i
was the shooting occurred at {
o'clock and the officers were not toll
of the occurrence until several hour,
later, and the murderer is still a
large and mas probably made goot
his escape-at least for some time Il
| come. Had the city a mounted pc
licenan in this district, he could hav,
reached the scene of the shooting il
Il very short while. He would yer,
probably have heard the report o
the gun and gone at once to tn
scene of tine trouble
There is no doubt, question or ar
gument to be made against the ad
visibility of more policemen.
Sometime ago the city mad tw,
| mounted policemen, but for some rea
son we do not know they were call
| ed off. The city has grown. both i,
size and Importance, since then, an,
we do not care for the city to gain TIL
| reputation Memphis has for hold-up
and murders because of inadeauat
number of policemen.