"Are you planning to integrate into the village? Were you the one who persuaded your father?"
The Uchiha Clan had sole responsibility for the Police Force, a tradition dating back to the Second Hokage's time.
Over the past several decades, the Uchiha Clan had done an excellent job, but the attitude of some of its members, combined with its exclusive authority to enforce the law, had offended quite a few other clans.
Had the Nara Clan occupied the Uchiha Clan's position, it would certainly have noticed something was wrong and taken the initiative to correct it in time. The Uchiha Clan, however, was not so easy to change.
If the Hokage proposed that the Uchiha Clan relax the Police Force's recruitment requirements and allow members of other clans to join, the proud Uchiha Clan would inevitably see it as a lack of faith in their abilities. If the Hokage forced the issue, his efforts would only earn their resentment. As for the Uchiha Clan itself, it would never have voluntarily proposed sharing its authority before.
Even someone as mild-mannered as Fugaku had never thought there was anything wrong with other clans disliking the Uchiha Clan because of the Police Force. In the Uchiha's eyes, they were merely enforcing the law fairly. If others resented them, that was their problem. What did it have to do with the Uchiha?
Now that the Uchiha Clan had volunteered to accept other villagers into the Police Force, the Third Hokage was naturally delighted.
"Although Root still has some capable adult ninja, Danzo's training methods have essentially turned them into mindless tools who obey only him. Our clan needs to assign people to correct their way of thinking."
Madara Uchiha did not answer the Third Hokage's question directly. Instead, he explained the situation.
"There are