Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-28

In MS command was dOinH on tndt uns.
Then he says:
IF that doesn't show you i need more
men, then I'm done asking
The other side OF the police force. the
side which is hidden from the view of the
man who sits on his porch and cusses
the COPS for not being around when
Old Man Jiggs' dog bit Aunt Sally in the
wrists set forth wildly and distinctly
in the report.
The feature OF the other side of the
police business would seem to be that
every Washington policeman covers more
territory and does more work than any
as Washington.
For that reason the major hammers
again and again on his oft-repeated re-
frain OF more policemen" He makes
the definite Recommendation this time
that there should be at least 100 more
foot prtvates," and goes into detail as
to the why's and wherefores.
He wants other things done to his
force in addition to the mere increase of
a hundred privates. But this Is the prin-
cipal thing.
Largest Police Jurisdiction
He says that the District is the largest
police jurisdiction In the United States.
has a more scattered population and more
varied interests. and that the police force
Is the smallest. comparatively. in the
country, and at the same time accom-
plishes a more successful work than any
other.
The major shows how hard his men
have to work. and just about what beats
each man has to cover, together with a
detail of all the special work his men are
called upon to do on account OF WASH
ington being the seat OF government.
He wants another inspector. He wants
500 a year more salary for each of the
four inspectors that would then be on
the rolls.
He asks more money for the captains
and the ieutenants, whose salaries are
81 800 and $1.320. respectively. He would
make q captains job worth 81 500 and a
lieutenant he values at $1,000
Sergeant on Lieutenant's Job.
He shows how he has no money for a
lieutenant I'm the tenth precinct and has
to keep up the pretense with a sergeant
on the job. He has not enough sergeants.
he says. and has to make acting SER
geants out OF privates. He complains
bitterly because there is not money
enough to have q sufiicient force Of these
higher officers.
July / there were on the rolls $50 pri-
Yates. or these 16 were sick. 80 on
their legitimate leave of absence. 81 on
special duty. including ~ assigned to
the White House and 1O3 on posts
That left 397 men for the regular pa
troll duty. Divide that into the relfefs
necessary for twenty-four-hour duty
and get 90 men for the day time and
1913 for the night.
The major points at these numbers
and asks whether 90 men seems enough.
Here 1t is he suggests that there may
ton. You can never find policeman
when you want him.
The special duty men are assigned at
hospitals. stations. as hack inspector.
ny,e In fvno
spector and about twenty other duties
The men on posts" are those assigned
to such duty as that busy man at the
Union station loop.
Inhuman Station Incarceration.
The report criticises some Of the po-
lice stations. The first precinct station
is referred to as that first precinct af-
fair" The major asks for a central po-
lice station to take the place Of No. l.
Locking up q prisoner in some cells at
some stations he speaks of as the addi-
ton Of a double penalty.
No. s. in the opinion Of the major. 10
the modern Bastille. or the Washing
tonian Libby. He says the whole place
should be done over before IL Is hit for
the confinement of human beings.
'In the first place the brick cells with
their insanitary and repulsive plumbing
should be torn out and replaced by steel
q
ing should be installed.
THE captain of the precinct says IL Is
almost inhuman to lock q person UP In
this station from Saturday until Monday
morning. Hardened criminals who have
served in prisons all over the country
say it is the worst place they have ever
been In
The police surgeons have condemned
No. 1. The report hints that while II
10 bad enough to be locked up there, it
is also bad TO have to be a policeman
and sleep there night after night
No. 3 10 pointed out az antiauated
and affording only inhuman cell treat
ment No. 3 has some defects, but none
like No. 6.
No. 4, says the report. gets 80
many noisy prisoners that nobody in
the immediate neighborhood can sleep
nights Besides, the building il reported
as unfit for holding prisoners.
Disorder in the City.
While Washington is low on big crime
like murders. big robberies. dangerous as
sauIts and the like-it is undoubtedly the
most disorderly city on the Atlantib
coast, IL what the major says is true.
With all the shortage of force. with ~
men patrolling the beats by day and 19S
by night, the books OF the various pre-
cincts all add up to show total number
of 33, 4l5 arrests. and nearly all of them
were for the loud and noisy kind OF
wrongdOing.
The major says the number OF disorder
lies is greater here than anywhere else.
He points out that all these arrests were
made while 10000 acres OF city were pa
trolled by fourteen policemen and frac-
ton.
With $4,000 people In the District. "a
the police census shows, the rate or ar
rests, therefore. IL about one to every ten
people in the whole District.
The major comments on troubles which
the police have In dealing with the IN
sane He says that political exciteme 1t
brings a tremendous number Of people
into Washington, who believe their
heaven-sent mission is to kill some one
or to overthrow the government, to Sc
the President. blow up the Capitol, and
q hundred other errands.
Not only that. but the major says that
disappointed love often throws q heap o.
responsibility on the force when the men
find a lovelorn woman gone crazy over
her lost lover.