Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-19
Asks That Council Purchase Add-
tional Motorcycles to BE Used In
Capturing omobiIists-com-
pIiment to Department
CHIEF AusLE's REQUESTS

Tn his report submitted to the city
council yesterday Chief of Police Wal
ter Auble makes many recommended
tions. the principal one being q re-
quest for additional patrolmen.
The present force is good, but not
large enough says the chief.
Total arrests for the year were 10-
$40, while fines and forfeitures amount
ed to 51,5S7.5O Both the number of
arrests and the amount of fines show
a big increase over the figures of last
year.
In his report the chief recommends
the following:
The appointment of at least fifty adj
ditiOnal patrOlmen.
The building of an addition to the
city jail, as we now frequently have
from a hundred to hundred and fifty
more prisoners than the present build
ing will properly accommodate. In one
tank, which is proveded with cots and
intended FOR but sixty prisoners, we
are frequently compelled to place from
hundred to a hundred and twenty.
The appointment of two lieutenants
for duty at central station-one dur.
Ing the day hours and the other at
night time.
That each officer be required to place
and keep telephone in his residence
there is need for his services near his
home and can be called to central sta
ton in emergencies. to court when
needed as witness, etc.
The providing and locating of at
least $50 telephone boxes for the use
of police officers in districts outside
of that which is now provided with
the Gamewel system, each box to be
provided with a red light and so. ar
T. n will it,I 70 OF
station its location and number.
Needs Motorcycles
The purchase of at least six more
motorcycles for the use of the depart
ment, the two now in use having
proven very valuable addition to our
equipment and an absolute necessity
for officers who are detailed to pur-
sue and arrest automobile, bicycle and
motorcycle YiolaterS of the speed or
dinance. During the first ten days the
two we now have were in use, the Of
ficers using same were enabled to
make arrests as a result of which fines
of $3.50 were collected, or more than
the cost of the two machines.
That all officers of the department
be required to provide themselves with
revolvers of uniform length and caliber,
the new style of weapon to be adopted
to be determined by the police COM
mission.
The employment of a department
photographer and the purchase of APP
paratus that will not only enable him
to take and finish photographs of pris-
oners in the building. but also to take
outside and interior pictures of build
ingS where serious crimes are commit
ted, when the same would be valuable
as evidence or an aid to the proper
explanation of the case when on trial.
This would, in the end, prove a saving
to the city, and the photographer, when
not engaged as such, could aid in the
work of keeping the records of the
identification bureau, to which de-
partment his work properly belongs.
To enable the police department to
better control crowds at time of pa
rades and at fires. that through the
business section of the city holes be
drilled in cement sidewalks, near inner
edge of curb line, same to be covered
with metal caps when not in use, and
that light hardwood posts and rope for
same be provided same to be kept in
keeping of the police department when
not in use. This has been tried in San
Francisco and several of the eastern
cities and found excellent.
Fines and Arrests
Regarding the fines and arrests the
chlef says:
The tabulated exhibits submitted
herewith show conciSely the number or
arrests, convictions, fines collected, ex-
pense of the department, etc, and from
the following table showing arrests and
fines collected in the past five years
you will see that there has been an
increase of from total of 5S9S arrests,
including 200 for felonies in 1901. to
1O,970 arrests, including 1854 for felonies,
in the year just closed, and that the
total collections of fines and forfeitures
i'm police court i'm the past year was
$51, ,5S7.50, or more than three times the
amount collected in 1901, which was
but $15,65O
Arrests for Total Fines and
Felonies. Arrests, Forfeitures.
1901 .......... 200 5,S9S $15, ,650 10
1902 ..... g9D Z G13 10 11T IN