The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-20
Chief MAKES ANNUAL REPORT
Record for Year 1915 Shows Total of
2150 Arrests and Of This Number Big
Majority Paid Fines or Served Time
Urges Code of City ordinaces.

henOSna is uOJ going TO nave new
police station at the present time at
least, for at the meeting Of the COM
mon council on Monday night the al
dermen refused to give their sanction
to recommendation of the chief of
police and the police committee Of the
council providing for the erection of
a new building to be used exclusively
for police purposes. The chief held
that the present quarters were made
quate, that the police station in the
city hall was nuisance to many peo-
pie who came to the city Offices to
transact business, that the lookup had
met with much criticism by the state
board Of control, and that the stair
way leading to the lookup was danger
Gus. Two of the members of the coun-
Gil committee declared their belief
that all the chief had said was true,
but Alderman Kisten declined to sign
the report. The committee suggested
that the new station as proposed
would cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000. Alderman Joachim, chairman
of the committee, strongly urged that
the fees earned by the department
from the municipal court and from the
county would provide fund to meet
this expenditure within five years.
When the matter was put to vote
it lost out. The vote on the motion
to advance the plan for the station
was as follows: Ayes, Aid. Roberts,
Tully, Martin, Anderson, Burt, Joach-
i'm, and Goodman. Nays, Aid. Rowe,
Shearer, Barth, Kisten, Rauen, Dona-
hue, Willems, Gundlach and Bounsall.
The report of Chief O'Hare for the
year was most interesting one. It
showed that in the year the police had
made total Of 2,150 arrests and that
the total fines and fees paid to the
city treasurer as result of the oper-
alton Of the department had reached
the record figure of $6,176.14.
For the first time in the history of
the city intoxication did not lead the
list Of offenses charged. Disturbance
was the leader this time and the report
showed AT arrests on this charge and
428 on charges of intoxication. Other
leading offenses on the list were, as
sault and battery, 1913; gambling, 80;
using abusive language, 40; adultery,
%; larceny, 90; non-support, "a;
speeding, rs; violating road rules, II;
vagrancy, 249; operating vehicles
without lights, Is; reckless driving,
10; abandonment, II, and pick
pockets, 10.
The report showed that twenty peo-
pie arrested by the police department.
had been sent to the state prison at
Waupun, 7 to the industrial school at
Waupun, 944 paid fines, 127 served
time in jail and 752 were turned out.
The patrol wagon was called out
1,130 times on police business. 1t re-
sponded to 70 ambulance calls and to
6S fire calls. The department. recov-
cred 73 lost or stolen bicycles ,-43 lost
children were returned to their homes
121 homeless dogs were killed.
The value Of stolen property recov-
cred was $9,491.50 and stolen property
valued at 1896 was not recovered.
In his report Chief O'Hare strongly
urged the revizing of the ordinances
of the city and the printing in some
form that would make it possible for
the people to know just where and
what the ordinances were.