Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-25
POLICE REPORT.

Annual Report Of the Poltco Department,
Shouting Worl: Performed During the
Past Year.
Chief of Police Albert 8. Munger has
completed his annual report, which we pre-
sent this morning. The report reads as
follows:
OFFICE OF CHEF OF POLICE,
Minneapolis, April Is, 1878.
To His Honor the Mayor and Aldermen of
tie CITY of Minneapolis in Council AS
sembled.
GENTLEMEN Il have the honor to submit
this my annual report of the Police
Department, showing briefly the con-
dition of the force and the duties
performed by it during the fiscal year end
ing the 18th day of April, 1873. take
great pleasure in being able to say that the
condition and discipline of the force is good,
the city IS very quiet and orderly, and no ex-
tensive robbery or burglary has occurred
during the year. In my annual report of
last year called your attention to the large
and increasing number of Migrants and
tramps infesting the city. The year just
closed shows still larger increase, and if
they continue to increase in the same rate
we shall soon be overrun with them and
have to increase the number of cells in
the station house to afford them lodging.
It has been the policy of the authorities to
arrest and confne them over night, deeming
it far safer to have them under confinement
than allow them running at large and sleep
ing in stables and lumber yards, thus allow
ing them chance to set fires to public OF
private property.
Tae M n,e: arre,tel ana kept in the
station house was 422; of these 146 were
subsequently sent to Jail on an average Of
about fifteen days each. Their board cost
the city about 81 200. The others were or.
dered by the court and police officers
to leave the city. And yet but
order, or, if they have, they only go 80 far al
sent to Minneapolis again. ! am confden
we can not rid our city of this pest unit
measures are taken to compel them to wor]
and earn their living. It has now become
necessity for you to establish some kind of
workhouse for offenders of this class. Judg
ing from close observation, am Statistic,
that more than two-thirds Of, what we cal
tramps are really an idle, worthless set, VIII
60 roaming over the country, not in search o
work, but to prey on others, and live with
out labor.
The men who are in search of employ
ment are of different class, and one VIII
has much to do with them can tell the differ
ence at q glance. They. too, are an unfortu
nate class, and often during the past yea
have sought the friendly shelter of the sta
ton house. During the year 356 of Their
have voluntarily applied for lodging an
have never been refused, although some
times two and three have necessarily had t
occupy one cell. These men, of course, hav
not been placed under arrest or brought bt
fore the municipal court It is the state
ment of all who have been connected wit
the city government within the past fe
years, that we are actually in need of
work house and city hospital.
In concluding this report, desire to 9.
press my grateful acknowledgements to D
tective Hoy and the captain and sergean
and, in fact, to all those connected with Il
department., for the prompt and faithf
manner in which they have performed the