40 years ago: Negative feedback received on new police-community relations project

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 28, 1970:

Nearly three months had passed since the Lawrence City Commission had authorized a police-community relations program, conducted by the Menninger Foundation of Topeka. Unfortunately, the program, which had a cost of $24,860, was creating more trouble than it was solving. Some members of Lawrence’s black community and “street people” had refused to participate in the program, saying that it was being created by white people and then imposed upon them. George Kimball, who had recently had an unsuccessful run for Douglas County sheriff and who was an unofficial spokesman for the young people living near the Kansas University campus, said that there was somewhat of a split in the community, and that some people wanted to participate while others did not. “But I just think they’re going to jeopardize the rest of us,” said Kimball of the would-be participants in the program.