The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05
LAWS OF CITY now IN CHAOS
Semi-annual Report Of Police Depart
ment Shows GIT Arrests Were Made
and the Department Earns Large
Amounts in Fines and Costs.

Chief of Police Owen O'Hare has
filed with the city clerk his report of
the doings Of the police department for
the first half of 1915 and the report
shows a new record Of police activity.
It shows a great growth in work done
by the department. as we'll as in fees
earned by the officers and in conclud-
ing his report the chief makes a
strong plea to the council for the cree
ton OF new police station which will
furnish better facilities for the de-
partment. He holds that the present
quarters of the department. are too
small and that located as they are
they are unfit for use as police
headquarters. He declares that the
dragging of intoxicated prisoners
through the main corridors of the city
hall is a great nuisance to other peo-
pie who use the city hall and he holds
that the time has come for the city
to have a building adapted for the
housing Of it's police department The
matter will be taken up later by the
council under the leadership of the
committee on police.
The chief also demanded from the
council the issuing at as early date
as possible Of a revised copy Of the city
charter and the ordinance Of the city.
He held that this would prove an
economical move for the city as in
their present condition it is impossi-
bic for attorneys for the city to find
half the ordinances which have been
passed by the council and that in order
to bring eases under city ordinances
the city attorney is forced to spend
half day searching for the ordinances.
The chief declared that on account Of
this fact many cases which might have
been brought under city ordinances and
the fines for offenses turned into the
city treasury were now being brought
under the state laws and these big
fines going to the state.
The publication Of the city ordi-
nances in some suitable form has long
been urged by members of the bar and
judicial officials in the city and
county and is it possible that with the
strong recommendation of the chief of
police that the council will take early
action to have this work done.
The statistical report of the police
department showed that during the
past six months the members of the
department had made total of OFT ar
rests. Here are some of the principal
charges named in complaints: intoxi-
cation, 201; vagrancy, 100; disturb
anee, 1874; gambling, Is; suspicion, 81;
assault and battery, 81; non support.
81; using abusive language, Is; petty
larceny, %; pickpockets, 10; speeders,
%; adultery, 13; riding bicycles with
out lights, -. The report shows that
352 Of the number arrested paid fines
and costs in court, eighteen of the
number were bound over to the cir
cult and municipal courts, fourteen
were sent to the state prison at Wau-
pun, four to the reform school at Wau.
kesha, and one to the state reforma-
tory at Green Bay.
Over FIVE hundred calls for the pa
troll wagon were made in the six
months or an average Of more than
two for each day in the period. There
were thirty-fve ambulance calls re-
sponded to by the police. The value
OF stolen property recovered was
saess.O5 and Of property reported as