Evening star., 1951-08-25
FeIonies Decline
In District as
Arrests Rise
Police Report Calls
Year One Of Its
Most Successful

Arrests for fe1onies In the Dis
trict during fiscal 1851 dropped
440 below the number for the
previous year for a total of 9,731.
according to the annual report of
the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment just released.
Total arrests, however, increased
2,075 over fiscal 1850 to 258,979
because of a Jump in traffic Of
fense arrests.
The departments report to the
Commissioners terms fiscal 1851
zone of the most successful years
in its history" with all 80 reported
murders solved, and 61.8 per cent
of all reported offenses closed.
The department also listed 100
per cent clearance on $40 gam
bling cases and 344 drug law viola
tionS.
Police Supt. Robert J. Barrett.
in a 1850 calendar year report last
December. also termed that year
one of the departments most
successful. Is.
"A Fewer Felony Arrests.
Felony arrests during fiscal
1851 totaled "a fewer than the
number in fiscal 1949. Other ar
rest figures for the three years
lperiod were as follows:
Misdemeanors-74,506 in 1851:
74,975 in 1850, and 70.986 in 1949.
Trafic-169,1 1877 in 1851; 166.079
in 1850 and 152,o26 in 194s.
Suspicion-5, 1913 in 1851, 5.238 in
1850 and 6,302 in 1949. Fugitive
AT in 1851. AL in 1850 and
474 in 1949.
OF the total, 157,478 of the
offenders in 1851 were white and
101, sol were colored. In 1850.
100, AGA were white and 6,440
were colored. In 1949, $4,000
were white and 80,580 were
colored.
In 1851, there were 230, ,424 male
offenders and 28.555 women. In
1850, the ratio was 231 .043 men
and 25,861 women, and in 1949.
it was 215,246 men and 24,347
women.
| SO Murders Reported.
OF the 50 murders reported.
IA were marked justifiable homi-
cides. In 1850. there were "a mur-
ders, of which II were reported
cleared. But there were "a mur-
ders in 1949 and 88 in 1947.
Traffic accidents during 1851
totaled 14,703. with SO fatalities.
as compared>with 13,543 accidents
and 20 fatalities in 1850:
OF the persons killed in trafic
accidents during 1851, 48 were
pedestrians, and of $3.50 persons
i. injured, 2,217 were pedestrians.
j Elsewhere in its tabulation Of
: the solution Of crimes. the de-
n partment gave these figures.
Il Number of rape cases. 1853. with
$50 cleared: attempted rape, So.
with 66 cleared; robbery, 879, with
$40 cleared; attempted robbery.
,l79. with 81 cleared; aggravated
assault, 4,246, with 3,606 cleared; |;
|, lhouSebreaking, 3,617, with 1898
cleared: attempted housebreaking,
: 1913, with IS cleared.
II Larceny and Theft Gases.
Also larceny and theft, $50 and
over, 1,750. with 725 cleared:
larceny and theft, under $50,
1920. with 2,536 cleared, and auto
! theft, 1878, with 420 cleared.
: OF these seven major classifica-
!, tions totaling 20,190. there were
,929 offenses cleared.
The report noted that, in an
effort to curtail juvenile delin-
-quency, the Juveline Bureau was
q detached from Administrative
! Headquarters last September anc
: designated a unit Of the Detec-
e tive Bureau.
el AS of July /. 1851. the forcs
nj had a strength of 2,073. compared
n with 1895 on July /, 1850. repre-
'e Senting q gain of 178 for the year
Ic but still under the authorized
lStrenpth nf 2 207