Excerpt from Our Police: A History of the Providence Force From the First Watchmen to the Latest Appointee HE police of many cities have marked characteristics; but the Providence force occupies an enviable position. Its members have more than a mercenary interest in the com munity they protect. They are taxpayers, and many of them house-owners as well as householders. Their welfare is identified with the welfare of Providence, and they have and display a true Rhode Island sense of duty and responsibility. They have made the city one of the safest and most orderly in the world. They have taught the class who make a living by crime to dread and avoid Rhode Island, and some of the most infamous criminals that ever preyed upon the American public have met their Nemesis in our great little Commonwealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.