The sun., 1903-11-11
IN THE POLICE NET.
Department Made ~, ,00B Arrests From
April to july I.

department Mau0 4S,O0o AIfoots TrOn
April 1 to july !.
In the three months ended June 30, the
record Of which has just been published,
4S.e66 arrests were made by the police OF
New York. OF them IS ,sA were in the
boroughs Of Manhattan and The Bronx.
OF those arrested in old New York $3.50
were apprehended for @disorderly con-
duct 7,l48 for intoxioation, O05 for petit
larceny, 2,ls8 as suspicious persons, ;"
s,SO4 for violating corporation ordinances,
1887 for violating the Liquor Tax law, and
1919 for intoxication and disorderly con-
duct. Many other arrests were made for
violations OF statutes or ordinances not
amounting to a felony; and when it Is re-
membered that many of the arrests are
made without just cause the victims being
discharged in court Immediately on ar
raignment, the number Of criminals Of
really serious Importance captured by the
police Is seen to be relatively small.
The police precinct in Manhattan In
which the greatest number Of arrests was
made in the quarter covered by the report
was the Nineteenth, or the Tenderloin,
where 2.2ee accused persons, ,ose Of whom
were women, were taken into custody
The Sixteenth precinct, bounded by East
Fourteenth street, Clinton street, Avenue
B, Rivington street and the East River, and
containing a smaller area than the Nine
teenth and population entirely different,
is second in the number of arrests, 2,l24
persons, Of whom 494 were women. The
New Tenderloin" precincts. the Twenty
second and the Twenty-sixth, which cover
the city from Sixth avenue and Central
Park West to the North River and from
Forty-second street to Eighty-si1th street.
together returned 2,o4O prisoners in the
quarter, Of whom 3s4 were women. There
were 200 policemen to make the arrests
in the Nineteenth precinct, 1l6 in the Six
teenth and 287 In the Twenty-seoond and
Twenty-sixth.
The East Side police seem to have been
more industrious than their Broadway
and West Side fellows. The Sixteenth
precinct police arrested eighteen persons
to each police officer; the Tenderloin po-
liceman's average was ten each, and that
Of the West Siders seven each. The Deteo-
tive Bureau made 1912 arrests, or eight to
each detective.
The house detective squad, Of ten men in
Manhattan and The Bronx, and the Brook
lyn telegraph squad were the only dl-
visions Of the force which lost no time on
sick leave during the quarter. The total
days time of the entire force was 70S 900.
and the time lost through sickness, injuries
and disabilities was 2o,lOO days. Of which
10,05O days were paid.
In Manhattan and The Bronx, Is, ,94s OF the
persons arrested were whites, born in the
JToit N IA
number Of ,o70, of whom 402 were women, /,
were arrested. or Irish birth. 5,4e5 persons
were arrested. The number Of persons Of
Italian birth arrested in these two boroughs
was 2,5o4, and of these only sixty-one were
women. Fifty-nine Dutchmen and 2,l22
Germans were arrested. or the Germans
1888 were women. Eleven Dutch women
were arrested. The only nations which
contributed no women to the feminine
prisoners roll were China. Belgium, the
South American countries, Japan and
Australia. OF the 800 persons Of French
birth arrested, 179 were women. Only one
Spanish woman was arrested, while forty
Spanish men were taken up. Cuba con-
tributed three women and thirty-flve men.
The West Indies are credited with twenty
eight men and one woman arrested. Women
of United States birth to tho number Of
3,0l8 were locked up.
OF those arrested, lo,S57 we're married
men and 2, ,7s9 married women, while ls,5oe
we're single men, and 4,lS9 single women.
All but 1856 women and es7 men arrested
could read and write. or the men ar
rested, $500 were under 20 years of age,
10, ,2s2 were between 20 and so years old,
7 ,5sl were over 80 and under 40 years, 4,lu
were between 40 and so years, and 2,so2 were
over so years. OF the women. 2sl were
under 20 years OF age, 1904 between 20 and
80 years, 2,o48 between 80 and 40 years. ,oo3
between 40 and so years. and ts4 were
over SO.
The occupations Of the persons arrested
show the usual diversity. No profession or
trade is free from unworthy members. Two
clergymen were hauled in. A doctor, 25
physicians, detective, 80 lawyers, 10 pub
fishers, civil engineer, II contractors, a
button maker, 8 brewers. IS brokers, 50
musicians. pilot, 2 rabbis, 10 students,
sculptor, II teachers, IS Wallets and rs but
lers help to make up the list.
All in all, the report shows that. 80 far az
the police knew. the town was orderly, with
a normal amount OF frivolty and badness.
Most of its people behaved themselves, and