Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 321, 11 November 1891 — Where is the Police. [ARTICLE]

Where is the Police.

We have heard all along about the efficiency of the police departments: they drill, underable officers, men that were employed to overthrow Kalakaua, and know how to fight. The foreign newspapers of Honolulu are ever ready to praise them, but when these are derilect in our duties, the papers are very {illegible} in speaking about it. Our attention has been called to the foolish notion that the soldiers have that they are governed entirely by another law, from other people, and that they can do about as they please, and while these latter are enjoying themselves in entering peoples' houses and permises uninvited and beat women on the street unmercifully, and shamefully showing the high sense of honor, of the Hawaiian soldiers under the command of another of Kalakaua's doubtful friends, the policeman look complacently on, when present, which is not always the case. For an example, to illustrate. what we have said of these two branches of the forces of the kingdom, we give the following, as described by an eye-witness:--About 4 to 5 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, there was a very disgraceful drunken row at the foot of Punch Bowl Street; women and children fled from fear in all directions, and had it not been for the cool and courageous act of a native girl, a brutal murder would have been on record--through the brutality of one of the Palace Guard. People were running in all directions for the police, but as usual in such emergencies none were to be {illegible}, either around the Government Building, or from Kawaiahao Church to the Marine Railway."