Daily national Republican., 1865-11-30

REPORT OF THE Observation-Disclosures :
ent Richards this aflernoon submitted to the
Board Of Police Commissioners the following re :
port for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1865:
DEPARTMENT oP MBrRoPOLIrAN PoLICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,
4SS TBsrH sTRgEr WRIST,
To the Board:
GRsrLRMES: have the honor to submit here
with my quarterly report Of the operations OF the
police for the quarter ending Sept 80, 1865
In my weekly communications to the Board /
have taken occasion to make such suggestions
and recommendations as seemed to me expedieut
and necessary at the time; consequently In this
report deem It unnecessary to repeat what has
already been brought to your notice except in a
few important particulars.
1t will be recollected that several weeks since
the Board reapportioned the Fifth and Sixth pro /.
cinots, making II street the dividing line. II was
then anticipated that new station house would
be secured for the northern section Of these for
mer precincts, and that the Central guard honse
would be used for the southern section. The
falling thus far to secure building for the above
named purpose In the northern section has pre-
vented this very desirable and necessary change
from being made.
The distance from N street 10 the Central guard
house and the Fifth precinct station, corner of
Ohio avenue and Thirteenth street, IL so great
that the patrolmen OF beats In tho northern sec
tion OF the city obliged 10 be absent from their
beats from half hour to an hour II an arrest Is
made by them.
Nothing Is more easy than for a party Of burg /.
lhrb TO get up u disturbance aud get one oil Their
number arrested, and while the patrol man Is alb :.
sent from his beat with his prisoner, carry out
their burglarious designs. The establishment OF
a station house in the northern section OF the
city would to very great extent remedy this
evil.
sUPERcEDED PNEs.
will also take this occasion to call your at
tentiOn to the custom among some Of the magis-
trates to allow hnes to be superseded. In a large
ma ority Of superseded cases am informed that
the fine is never collected. The sixth section of
the act OF Congress approved July 10, 1862
amending the act approved August 0, 1851
magistrates personally responsible to the board
Of police for the amount Of nne and costs, to be
collected Of him as debt due and payable. The
language Of this act indicates that all 1nes should
pass through the hands OF the board.
GI recommend that the Board require OF the
police magistrates an account Of all superseded
nnes that they have failed to collect, or that
have not been collected and that In all cases
where the nne has not been and cannot be col.
lected, the magistrate taking the supercedias,
be held responsible for the amount or the hue
and costs, as provided in the above mentioned
section.
INCREASE OF oRINB AND ITS CAUSE
By reference to table No. 5, 1t will be observed
that the number Of arrests made during the
quarter amount to the unprecedented number of
9,l22, being nearly 8, 900 mere than have been
arrested during any preceding quarter.
The number OF arrests Is mainly owing to the
great number Of soldiers that have been mus
tered out Of the military service In our midst
who, finding themselves without employ ment
and without means, many OF them have, rs q
consequence, become yiolatOrs Of law, and have
fallen into the hands Of the police But the
greater number Of arrests have been OF persons
who have followed In the wake Of our armies for
purposes Of plunder and robbery, and now that
the war Is over and our armies disbanded, they
are forced TO prey upon our citizens. There are
also large number Of the c0nvicts OF Southern
prisons who are now at large, who are found In
be among the most desperate characters that
visit our city. Most Of these men are AZ yet un-
known 10 our detectives, and conseq uentiy these
officers labor under disad vAntage In their cases
However, the number Of arrests made and the
number Of convictions before the Criminal Court,
shows that the police force has been on the alert
The police statistics Of other cities show that
there is not another police force In our country
where the pumber Of arrests aud convictions
equal those Of this force In proportion to the num-
Der OF men on the force.
DETECTIVE FORCE.
Number OF rObberies reported, 22Si amount or
property reported stolen, S62, ,26l. 20; recovered
by officers, 4ll2, 323.65; turned over to property
clerk o. $40 97t to claimants $lO9, ,703 50; taken
from prisoners and returned to same, q, ,452 -;
reported at this oni'e as recovered by precinct
otieers,$2, o42i reported as recovered by owners,
ell, $50.
It should be stated that during the quarter
COS, 900 In United States bonds was recovered at
one time, and " 800 In coupons at another time
by officers Of this cOrpR, which was not reported
at this Office as having been stolen.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
The officers comprising the sanitary detail
have been active during the quarter, as the fol
lowing statement will show: Number OF nuis-
Auee notices served, S92i complaints abAted, 500
unabated o.; warrants served, 81; dead horses
removed, 2O5i persons buried, IS removed to
hospitals, 5, amount Of nneS imposed, s4l2sI.
ARRESTS. ~. .,.f..
During the quarter there have been s,l3a AZ,