ANTI-BIAS COURSE FOR POLICE IS SET City to Begin Training 3,000 Next Month, Says Mayor, and All on Force in Time
New York Times
April 30, 1955
pg. 19
Three thousand patrolmen will receive special training, starting next month, in fostering tolerant human relations in the city. Mayor Wagner confirmed yesterday the plans for the program and said that ultimately the entire force of 21,000 policemen would undergo the training.
His announcement was made at the forty-second annual meeting of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as it con-inued its sessions at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Several weeks ago Police Commissioner Francis W. H. Adams indicated briefly that such a program was under consideration.
The Mayor said the training would utilize the "most advanced methods of instruction." He did not specify what the instruction would be or how the 3,000 policemen would be selected.
He indicated the Police Department would seek the aid of the Anti-Defamation League and other agencies concerned with combating bigotry and inter-group tensions through such media as lectures, pamphlets, literature, audio-visual projects and investigations.
The initial police training will last through June.
The modern policeman, Mayor Wagner said, needs more than his "gun and manual." He expressed hope that the new training would provide the police with "a knowledgeable approach to people and situations which breed tension and trouble."
Edward Henry Schultz, national chairman of the league, scored "institutions that permit discrimination in housing, employment, education and public accommodation."
Edward Corsi, ousted United States immigration official, criticized "those people who have a considerable authority over immigration policy and who are strongly of the opinion that there are superior and inferior races in this world."
The delegates unanimously approved a resolution urging the amendment of the Refugee Relief Act, and the elimination of the "discriminatory national origins, quota system and other repressive features" in the McCarran-Walter Immigration Law.
Poster Comment:
Also note the name "Edward Corsi" mentioned in this article. It seems the B'nai B'rith Corsis have long been involved in monitoring and undermining American immigration.