The morning times., 1895-09-22

he makes arrests, ana MS treatment ol
prisoners before a nd ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The possession of a gun and club, and
the authority vested in the wearer of the
bit of nickel plato on which the words
metropolitan Police are stamped, is
very apt to make even the most level
headed CT men somewhat autocratic.
The officer who persistently refrains from
making use Of the weapons with which he
is provided deserves the credit he gets,
and what is better, gets the credit he de-
serves.
Whcnmen render themselves liza BILE toarrest
they are not, as a rule, very apt to consider
that the policeman is only doing his duty
in arresting them, and would probably lose
his job If he didn't. They nearly always
think they are being treated unjustly, or
Disseminated against, and their Unborn
yearning for liberty makes of them kickers.
This is annoying to the policeman, and
frequently disas trous to the prisoner.
1t is work to make an arrest, and no one
in the employ sof' the District government
is going to do more work than his duty
calls for-at least no policeman is.
HOW TO BEHAVE.
II book were written on the etiquette
of being arrested, it should be carefully
perused by every citizen. The average
man doesn't know any more about how to
act when he falls into the clutches of
the law, than a Cherokee Indian would
at a French ball.
They are unwilling to accept the fact
that when a policeman gets his hands on
they must go somewhere. II they don't
go to the station house in a quiet, orderly
manner, they are likely to go to the
hospitaEin an unconscious condition and an
ambulance.
As soon as person is notified that he
is under arrest he should fan in step with
the officer and march. Resistance never
does any good. With some policemen 1T
simply means that they viii take a great
deal OF unnecessary trouble, and land their
prisoner al the station house very wrathy,
very much out of breath, but whole.
With others, and there are a number Of
others, it means that the foolish individual
doing tie resisting will get pounded until
his system went hold his political opin-
ions. And. minus the opinions, he will be
locked up. Just the same.
With the advent of SO many young men on
more frequent use, but there are many
OF the older members of the department who
pride themselves on never having had &C.
easion TO use either their pistol or club.
In those days, too. when the force was
small and the city thinly populated, making
an arrest was an altogether different mat
ter from what it is to-day when men run
double beats, and can call on numbers Of
citizens for aid.
Mr. Robert Burns, the night clerk It police
headquarters, and one of the veterans of
the police force, is one of those who are
opposed to the use of the club.
FISTS INSTEAD OF A CLUB.
In the early days of the city police he did
duty on what was then called The Island
in South Washington, and there were few
harder sections in the city to manage.
But whenever he wanted company TO the
station house he had only to indicate his
wish to the offender, and without more
ado he had company.
A salutary lesson, administered to n dis
orderly character with his fists, when he
first began to do patrol duty, gained for
him great prestige in the neighborhood.
however, and it was probably due to this
fact that he had so little use for club or gun.
The actions of n newly made prisoner
depend entirely upon the man making the
arrest. With some policemen every Of
fender who is at all tough will buck
while with others the same people are
meek and accommodating.
Mr. James McDevitt. now a private de
tective, who became q member of the police
force shortly after its organization, and
who has probably arrested more notorious
toughs and criminals than any other man
doing police business in the city, is one of
those who never used either club or gun.
And yet n South Washington tough by
the name of Donovan, who is well remern
bered by number of the older men, would
submit to arrest at the hands of no single
policeman except McDevitt With him it
was only necessary 10 be told that he was
wanted. and the man would GO
The average policema n doesn'tstandm much
on ceremony when he has a drunk and
disorderly person on his hands, and the
more the prisoner hangs back the more
disastrous the consequences will be. There
are different degrees Of roughness among
different policemen, but the man who
hangs back and is troublesome never fails
10 get the worst of it, and it goes against
him in the police court.
Tough women, especially colored, are
the most troublesome prisoners to handle.
The innate chivalry in q big, stalwart po
liceman nearly always tends to make him
hold his hand whana woman, black or white,
is the prisoner, and the trouble they some
times take to land a female at the station
house should procure them an increase
of salary
NO EASY TASK TO TAKE HER
There is at present in South Washington
colored woman by the name of Rose
Craig, who has 4 police court record COW
ering almost the entire period of her exist
ence. She hardly ever spends more than
five DAYS al a time out of the workhouse,
and her proud boast is that she can lick
any man in her neiShborhocd.
When she has been drinking and is in a
fighting bumor, it is no easy task to
take her TO the patrol box. She has re-
sisted the officers every time she has
been arrested, scratching. biting, pound
ing and kicking them, but she has never yet.
felt the blow of n club.
E It has frequently been necessary for the
Officers to drag her three or four squares
in the mud. and TO sit on her in. the patrol
wagon. but whatever cracked heads she
may have sustained nave not been due 10
the rosewood sticks in the hands OF the
guardians of the peace.
The Chesterrields Of the police force,
though. are the members of the detective
bureau. True, the class of criminals who
come under their supervision are much
higher than the ordinary run of petty
offenders who are picked up by the patrol
men. in that their crimes are of a more