The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-14
POLICE DEPT REPORTS
PRESENTED TO THE BO1RD BY ST.
PERTNTENDENTA AND, CLERK.

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chief-Thc work Done During the
Past Year.
The following annual reports of the
condition Of the police department were
submitted to the board of police COM
missioners last night by Superintendent
Wrinn and Clerk SouthWorth:
New Haven, Jan. /, 1900.
To His Honor the Mayor, and the Hon.
orable Board of Police Commission
| ers:
Gentlemen:-I have the honor to sub
NIT to your honorable board my third
annual report of the work performed by
| the police department of the city Of
New Haven for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1899.
| 1t contains tabulated statements and
| the necessary statistics to complete my
report
There has been no perceptible increase
of the force in this department during
the year 1899. AT present the police
force numbers one hundred and seventy.
eight, as against one hundred and sew
enty-six last year, an increase Of one
sergeant and one patrolmar.
respectfully call your attention once
more to the fact that a new police sta
ton will be required to be built on our
property corner Of Dixwell avenue as
the building now occupied by us is I'M
suitable for a police station. l find 1t
very difficult, In fact, almost impossi-
BILE to transact the business necessary
to be performed in police station in a
satisfactory manner In the present
building. l would respectfully suggest
that an earnest effort be made to COM
plete Station Three insofar as at least
as the building of suitable number of
cells in it, so that when prisoners are
arrested in that. district they can be
kept there properly until the proper
time to send them to police headquar-
tiers or to discharge them in the morn
ing. | once more call the attention Of
your honorable board to the necessity
of having a covered stairway built at
Station One for the purpose of convey
ing the prisoners from the lookup to
the city court. The present mode is in
convenient and unsafe.
l am pleased to find that my recon-
the so-called lodging house has met with
the approval of our legislature, which
passed a law in that respect that will
meet all the requirements of the case.
I once more call the attention of your
honorable board to the necessity of a
change in the law governing pawn
brokers. They should pay much
greater license than they pay at pres
ent and should be compelled to, file a.
suitable bond to the city Of New Haven
with the party issuing the license as a
guaranty of conducting their business
honestly, according to law so as to af-
ford their patrons some security for the
property they put in pawn
/ respectfully suggest an increase of
twenty patrolmen to the department,
making the number Of patrolmen 142,
believe that nu1nber necessary in order
to give our citizens proper protection.
I respectfully repeat my suggestion Of
last year in regard to our citizens who
are about to vacate their residences
during the summer, or at any other
time for a short period, that they will
notify these headquarters or the captain
of the station nearest to them, so that
their property may receive proper and
special attention during their absence.
Such notification will benefit them and
this department..
This city is quite clear of almost all
forms of gambling with the exception
of some policy playing and that is con-
Quoted so adroitly by the parties inter-
ested in the game, on account of the
It'll l,N AIt no
are determined to break it up as far as
it is in their power to do, we find 1t
very difficult to catch them in the act
of playing as the court requires.
The closing of liquor saloons on Sun
days has been most vigorously enforced
by the police force of this city, And I
am pleased to state that during my
thirty-three years Of service in this de-
partment, the Sunday liquor law vioa-
lions were never so strictly enforced as
they are at present and will continue
to be If possible more strictly enforced
while I am superintendent of police. T
am pleased to say such violations are
very few. And am in hopes to make
have partitioned part of their saloon
Oll WiGI6 lutI1 anu WOlllcIl VI QuSSllOH-
able character can sit down and drink.
Such places are calculated to breed i'm
and bring discredit upon the
as well as on the city, but
these places are under such strict sur
veillance by the police that we have
driven the most of this class of saloon
keepers out of such practices.
I respectfully suggest and hope that
some law or ordinance will be passed
and enacted that will bring all balls |
and dances where admission Is charged
under the surveillance Of the police. re-
quiring them to procure a license be-
fore such ball or dance takes place. My |
object In making this suggestion is not |
for the fee to be charged if any, but |
that it would prevent those cheap Sat |
urday night dances, or dances such as |
take place in this city so frequently ev-
cry winter where our young people are
brought together without much cons!d- |
GRAFTON as to their moral standing.
During the year ending December i
Il. 1899, the number of arrests made by |
this department was 6,314.
Quite a number of those arrests were
made for burglary and theft, while the |
ourglaries were not of a very serious
nature SaS to the amount taken, still |
hey were source of great annoyance
% the police department. l am pleas
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