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BOSTON
PUBLIC
LIBRARY
Public Document
No. 49
SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
Police Commissioner
CITY OF BOSTON.
Year ending ;N'ov. 30, 1911.
V
BOSTON:
\VTIIGHT & POTTEB PRINTING CO., STATE PBINTEBS,
18 Post Office Square.
1912.
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Apfsoved by
Thi State Board or Pubucation.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Repobt: —
First — The Boston police free from politics 6
Second — The Boston police and asMults on citixens 7
Third — The Boston police and "oomiption," 9
Fourth — The Boston police and th«"Boolal evil," .... 10
Fifth — The Boston police and the liquor laws 11
Sixth — The Boston police and gsmbling 12
Serenth — Law the only police guide 12
Offences against the laws. ,13
Nonresident ofTendera, 14
Police work on jury U*ta, 15
Automobile laws 15
Charges against policemen, • . .16
Police trial boards 17
Persons who have served as police commissioners, .... 18
Street traffic and traffic roles 21
The Depabtuent: —
The police force 26
Signal service 26
Employees of the department 26
Recapitulation, 26
Distribution and changes, 27
Police officers injured wh0e on duty 27
Work of the department, 27
Azresta 27
Drunkenness 29
Bureau of criminal investigation, 30
Officers detailed to assist medi<al examiners, 31
Miscellaneous business, 32
Lost, abandoned and stolen property, 32
Special events, 33
Inspector of claims 33
House of detention 34
Police signal service 34
Signal boxes 34
Miscellaneous work, 35
Harbor service, 35
Horses, 36
Vehicle service, 37
Automobiles 37
Ambulances 38
List of vehicles used by the department 39
Public carriages 39
Wagon licenses, . .40
CONTEXTS.
PAGE
Listing male residents of Boston, etc., . . ... . .41
Women voters vcri6ed, ........ 41
Listing expenses, 41
Number of policemen employed in listing, ..... 42
Special police 42
Raaroad police, 42
Miscellaneous licenses, ......... 42
Musicians' licenses, .......... 43
Itinerant 43
Collective 43
PMblic lodging houses, ......... 44
Carrj-ing dangerous weapons, ........ 45
Small loan licenses, .......... 46
Pensions and benefits, ......... 46
Financial, ........... 46
Distribution of police force, ........ 48
List of officers who died during the year 50
List of officers retired during the year, ...... 51
List of officers promoted during the year 52
Number of men in active serrice, ....... 53
Officers discharged and resigned during the year 54
Number of days' absence from duty by reason of sickness, . . .55
Complaints against officers daring the year, ...... 56
Number and distribution of horses, ....... 58
Arrests bj- di\-isions during the year, ....... 59
.\rrests and offences for year, . . . . . . _ . .60
Age and sex of persons arrested, ........ 76
Comparative statement of crime as to population, .... 77
Licenses of all classes issued, ........ 78
Dog licenses issued, .......... 79
Wagon licenses issued, ......... 79
Financial statement, .......... 80
Payments on account of signal ser%-ice, ...... SI
.\ccident9, ........... 82
Male residents listed by wards and precincts, ..... S4
Male residents, supplementary list, ....... 85
Women voters listed, ......... 86
Sl)e CotnmontDcaltl) of inassocl)usctt0.
REPORT,
Headqcabteu or the Poucb Department,
Office or the Poucs CoutunoNEs, 29 Feubebtox Sccabe,
Bonox, Dec. 30, 1911.
"To His Excellency Eugene N. Foss, Governor.
YocR Excellency: — As Police Commissioner for the city
of Boston I have the honor to present, in compliance with the
provisions of chapter 291 of the Acts of 1906, a report of the
work of the police department for the year ended Nov. 30, 1911.
Ha^^ng completed a term of five years as Police Commis-
sioner and entered upon a second term I may describe with
knowledge some conditions of police work and organization in
Boston which are peculiar, beneficial and creditable to the city.
The people of Boston are daily readers of news which affects j:
unfavorably in turn the police departments of other American J
cities, large and small; and it therefore seems to me to be well
worth while that they should receive such information as
shall save them, in so far as the facts justify, from judging their
own police ser\'ice by what they read of the service which is
given to other communities. ^i
First — The Boston Pouce Free from Politics.
The Boston Police Department is wholly free from politics —
the root of all evil in the policing of American cities and towns.
A police department without politics may yet be inefficient,
but a police department controlled or even influenced by politics
is sure to be inefficient and worse, to just such a degree as it is
affected by the political taint. In the five and a half years for
which I can answer, no appointment, promotion or transfer of
a police officer, no expenditure of a dollar, no grant or refusal
6 POLICE CO.ADIISSIOXER. [Jan.
of a single one of the tens of thousands of licenses and permits
which the Police Commissioner controls has been influenced
by any poEtical i)ersonage or political consideration. The
public acceprancc of this as the actual condition is shown by
the fact that in all the critidsm to which a police department
and its cocDmissioncr are sure to be subjected, not one person
and not one newspaper has even alleged in five and a half years
that the dej«artmcnt as a whole or any members of it were
concerned in any way with politics, except as voting citizens.
Technically, the commissioner himself might have been regarded
in his firt.! term as n i)olitical appointee, but even that suspicion
is lost in his reappointment by a Governor not of his own party.
It may be added, moreover, as emphasizing the peculiarity
of this situation, that by law and for lawful purposes the Boston
Police Deparancnt is brought into closer relation with voters
and elections than is any other police department in the world.
It is to the police that the statutes have entrusted the annual
house-to-liotcte canvass of men and women whose names con-
stitute the hisis of the lists of voters prepared by the election
commissioDecs. It is to the police that supplementary inquiries
as to new CMxlidates for r^istration as voters are assigned.
It is to the pcJice that all the ballots for use in the city on elec-
tion days aw entrustctl for prompt and safe deliverj- at the 206
voting place?. It is a policeman who hands the key of the
ballot box to the warden, witnesses and certifies the number
registered, and is the custodian of the key throughout the
day. A po5«man watches the proceedings of election officers
from the opening of the polls until the final returns are handed
to him for «3elivcry to the election commissioners. He must
be informal as to all the conditions under which voting should
proceed and the ballots be handled and counted, for it is his
duty to act instantly should any condition l>e nolated. He
has printed instnictions from his own superiors and from the
Board of EWtion Commissioners. He holds in hb hand a list
of voters in the precinct whose confinement in hospitals or
penal institutions makes it impossible that their names should
legally be voted upon. He holds also a printed descriptive list
of all voters in the precinct, and uses it constantly as a means
of checking attempts at fraud. And when the polls are closed
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and the count is begun, it is a policeman who must watch every
movement of the election officers, with a full knowledge of the
tilings which they should or should not do; see to it that a
dozen details are obsened in sealing and otherwise preparing
the returns, and then take them for personal delivery to the
election commissioners.
I may add that as Police Commissioner I have found it easy
to keep the department out of politics. The members of the
force want none of it, and when once convinced that no political
influence can help or hurt them they gladly base their hope of
promotion wholly upon the proper performance of their duties.
The "politicians," so called, whatever their party, have given
no trouble.'^ department head who is himself independent of
political control creates his own atmosphere and is not im-
portuned for improper favors which wise politicians soon learn
are not to be had. As the Governor of the Commonwealth is
the only public official, other than the courts, to which the
Police Commissioner of Boston is responsible, it is proper for
me to say that in five and a half years of ser\-ice under three
Governors representing the two leading political parties, I
have never received from one of them a request or an intimation
designed to influence my official action through favor towards
them or their friends, on any subject whatever. On the con-
trarj', they have uniformly assured me of their desire that I
should maintain the independence of judgment and conduct
which was the basic condition of my acceptance of office.
Secoxd — The Bostox Pouce .oid Assaults on Citizens.
Violent and abusive treatment of citizens is a common and
probably much exaggerated cause of complaint against the
police throughout the country. Let us see what information
can be given as affecting Boston.
In the past five and a half years about 300,000 arrests have
been made in Boston, not counting cases in which juveniles or
adults were merely summoned to court. These arrests were
made by about 1,500 policemen on duty at all hours of the day
and night, armed with clubs and loaded revolvers. Of the
men arrested more than half were drunk, and in thousands of
cases \iolent and abusive; and a large percentage of all persons
arrested were dangerous criminals.
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As a consequence of these arrests and of the relations of the
police with the whole population two poGoemen have been con-
victed of unjustifiable assaults and have been discharged from
the department; and two others have been discharged for
offences believed to have been the outgrowth of an assault
upon a prisoner. In none of these cases vas a club, revolver or
other weapon used, and in all instances the acts of the police-
men resulted from outbursts of temper provoked bj- abusive
language. It may be said, that this remaiiable record is due
to leniency on the part of the department towarxls such offenders,
that a citizen who is assaulted by a poTkanan cannot secure
Justice from the police authorities. On the contrarj-, no other
offence is pursued more rigorously or punished more severely.
But to this suggestion there is a perfect answer in addition to
the denial. A citizen who is assaulted bj- a policeman has a
right to go to the courts for redress, either ■trjth a criminal com-
plaint for assault or with a civil suit for damages. But in five
and a half years no Boston policeman has been convicted in
any criminal court of assault or any other form of Anolence com-
mitted upon a citizen; and no Boston pcEoeman has paid a
dollar in civil damages by order of a court for any act committed
by him within those five and a half years. There have been a
few instances, perhaps four or five, in Trtoch policemen have
paid small sums out of court in settlement of eases invohing
technical assault or unlawful arrest, but not actual bodily in-
juTA- to the plaintiffs.
Five men while engaged in violations <A law and in conflict
with policemen have received injuries whiti resulted in death,
but in all such cases the courts, after full investigation, have
declared the policemen to be blameless.
What is the other side of the caseT In fire and a half years
two policemen have been shot dead by oiBiinals and a dozen
have been crippled for life by shooting or other \-iolence. In
the same period 305 persons, not counting those who escaped,
have been arrested for assaulting policemen; and US policemen
while arresting criminals and Go other pdBcemen while pur-
suing criminals have been injured to such an extent as to cause
them to lose 3,696 days from duty. Xo aooount b made of the
innumerable cases in which the injuries <fid not necessitate
absence from duty.
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Such is the record of five and a half years as between the in-
dividual citizen and the individual policeman, with the police-
man possessing the legal as well as the moral right, often of
necessity exercised, to use all needed force in effecting an arrest
and overcoming resbtance. As to the presers-ation of order in
its broader aspect, this may be said to the credit of the people
and of the police: in the fifty-seven j-ears of its existence the
Boston Police Department has kept order in the city without
once calling for military aid. In the draft riot of 1S63 soldiers
were employed imder orders of their own officers to prevent
resistance to laws which were themselves of a military character;
and at the time of the great fire of 1S72 the militia were called
out as a precautionary guard for the extensive burnt district.
With these exceptions, if they can be called exceptions, no
soldier has done police duty in Boston in fifty-seven years, a
record which I feel sure cannot be matched by any city of its
size in the world.
Thhu) — The Boston Pouce and "Corruption."
In five and a half years one Boston policeman has been con-
victed of bribery. He accepted $2 in a crowded street, in open
day and in the presence of three witnesses who were strangers
to him, on his promise that he would refrain from prosecuting
one of the witnesses for a violation of the street traffic rules.
The case was reported at once at headquarters, the policeman
was questioned and suspended and charges were preferred
against him. He offered his resignation, which was refused,
and on failure to appear for trial he was discharged and the
case was reported to the district attorney. Judging from his
conduct at the time and since I am of the opinion that the
man, who had ser\'ed two years, was mentally unbalanced. In
another instance a policeman who was discovered by his superiors
to have given information of an intended search of a house
was discharged from the department. The e\'idence against
him disclosed no briber}', but indicated rather that he had
acted through friendliness. In a third instance the names of
certain police officers with figures against them representing
money were found in a diary in a house raided with a search
warrant. The matter was investigated with the greatest
10 POLICE COMMLSSIOXER. [Jan.
thoroughness and no reason could be discovered for doubting
the honesty of the officers named, who had done and are still
doing the best possible work for the suppression of \'ice in their
di\-ision. I do not doubt that there are persons in Boston who
pay money to third parties on the suppoation that it goes to
the police, but that it does go to them or to any of them has not
been shown by a particle of credible testimony. A cordial wel-
come at police headquarters has always awaited any person who
could give such testimony, and the whole force knows that
any member con^•icted of corrupt practices will be not only dis-
charged but presented for criminal prosecution. Such is the
discovered extent of "corruption" in the Boston Police Depart-
ment in five and a half years; and though no man can say that
no policeman is corrupt, it is fair to assume that the fire under-
hing so small a quantity of smoke must itself be small.
Fourth — The Bostox Pouce and the "Socl\.l Evil."
For four successive years, contrary to all precedent in the
department, I have given in my annual reports elaborate sta-
tistics, with liberal comment thereon, concerning crimes against
chastity and morality. I find that this matter covered in the
aggregate 50 printed pages. As I supposed that mj- report for
1910 would be my last, no feature of the proWem that seemed
worthy of public consideration was neglected; and for that
reason and because there is nothing new to be said I return to
the former practice of the department, which is to include
the statistics of these offences against the laws with the statis-
tics of all other offences. For the purpose of this summary I
may repeat briefly what I have before given in detail, that: —
1. The Boston police make no compromise with the "social
e\-il."
2. That rejecting the method followed in practically all large
dties, including the capital of the United States, they refuse to
designate certain districts in which the laws against sexual
\-ice may be broken with impunity.
3. That their prosecutions, carried on by lawful and decent
methods, are aimed against persons who \-ioIate the laws of
chastity and rnorahty because they are law breakers and the
police are sworn to enforce all laws to the best of their ability.
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4. That the Boston police have not exterminated sexual \'ice,
even of the commercial kind, an accomplishment which no
police and no people have ever yet achieved; but their work
m that direction in the past five years has been greater than
any that the city ever before knew, and will be continued by
all means at their command and in the face of all forms of
public hostility and indiife
Fifth — The Boston* Pouce axd the Liquor Laws.
The laws concerning the sale of intoxicating liquors are en-
forced by the Boston police and are lived up to by licensees in
a manner which I feel sure is unequalled in any other large
city in the United States. The laws themselves are strict,
elaborate and complicated, and the further conditions imposed
by the licensing authorities are numerous. Licensed places
are closed within the hours and on Sundays and other days
prescribed by the laws. The "back door" of the saloon, which
in other large cities is recognized and tolerated by the authorities
in \-iolation of their own laws, is not known in Boston, and the
saloon itself is exposed to inspection by the public and the
police at all hours of all days. Molations of law by licensees
are' confined almost exclusively to sales made to minors and to
intoxicated persons, and to sales made on Sundays and pro-
hibited holidays by hoteb operating under the law which per-
mits the serving of liquors to persons resorting to such hotels
for food or lodging. The minor b not easily identified, especially
when he lies as to his age; the degree of inebriation which
brings a person under the law as to intoxication has not been
and cannot be defined by the bw itself; and the pro%dsion con-
cerning Sunday and holiday sales by hotels is susceptible of
many evasions. I believe it to be safe to say that wherever the
law is so specific as to afford a reasonable basis for enforcement,
it is enforced; and that the line of incomplete enforcement runs
through those provisions of the law which are themselves un-
certain and cannot be made dear and effective at all times.
The sale of intoxicating liquors by unlicensed persons has
long been carried on only in ways so cautious and places so
obscure that in order to obtain entrance and e\ndence the
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police are compelled to resort to strategem and disguises. Un-
der those conditions the prosecutions number from 150 to 200
annually.
Sixth — The Bostox Police .iXD GAiiBixNc.
No professional gambling house exists in Boston and none
has existed for a dozen years. This is a remarkable situation,
for the presence of many such houses in other cities and the
futile efforts of the authorities to suppress them are notorious.
Fifteen years ago Boston, with a much smaller population, con-
tained perhaps a score of houses fitted, furnished and carried
on by professional gamblers for gambling on a large scale. All
have long since been forced oat of business by police prosecu-
tions, and they have no successors. The gambling of to-day
in Boston is carried on spasmodically and on a pettj- scale in
laundries, lofts, barns, kitchens, tailor shops and like places,
and in open lots, by men and boys who go into it as an occasional
amusement, not as a means of living. A few men are concerned
in it who try to live without work by this or any other method.
They hire a room in one part of the citj- or another from time
to time, but soon the police appear, strip the room of its poor
fittings, seize a few chips and plajing cards, arrest all present
and that is the end of that particular place. Gambling of the
character which alone b found and prosecuted in Boston re-
ceives practically no police attention in other large cities.
Seventh — Law the Only Pouce Gctde.
Obedience to law, with the use of none but lawful methods,
is the rule of action in the Boston Police Department. To such
obedience policemen are required to hold themselves as well as
to hold others. They are not allowed to follow unlawful methods
for the sake even of an apparent advantage to the community,
ioT the community will suffer in the long run far more than it
can possibly gain through disregard for law by its police. In
the siunmary which I have given under the seven preceding
headings I have not touched the broad, general work of the
Boston Police Department; I have attempted merely to give
some useful information concerning certain subjects which are
always discussed when police work in the L'nited States is un-
der consideration.
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Offenxes against the Laws.
Statistics concerning offences against the laws, which are
given in full detail in another part of this report, are here
summarized. The total number of arrests in 1911 was 70,442,
as against 71,201 in 1910. The eight general divisions under
which offences are classed show the following numbers for
four vears: —
Offesces.
ArresU
ID 1903.
(^.
ArresU
ID 1910.
Arrests
io 1911.
Offences against the person, .
Offences against property with violence.
Offences against property without vio-
lence.
Malicious offences against property,
Forgery and offences against the cur-
rency.
Offences against the license laws, .
Offences against chastity, morality, etc.,
Offences not included in the foregoing,
including drunkenness.
3,591
692
4,043
185
76
82S
1,141
57,585
3,156
525
3,783
176
71
769
1,409
61,623
3,326
479
3,584
137
69
532
1,308
61,766
3,213
535
3,701
169
60
554
1,294
60,916
Totab,
68,146 71,512
71,201
70,442
A summary of fines and imprisonments is shown as follows: —
i««. 1 »«.
MIO.
1911.
Persons fined, ....
15,735
17,407
14,949
13,772
Total amount of fines.
$159,982
8161,399
§138,140
S129,432
Persons sentenced to imprison-
8,883
9,478
9,533
8,627
Total years of imprisonment, .
3,904
4,130
3,841
3,639
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[Jan.
XOXRESIDEXT OFFENDERS.
The proportion of nonresident offenders among the persons
arrested shows a slight decrease for the first time in many
years — but only one-hundredth of one per cenL When the
first police commission was established in 1S7S, the percentage
was 19.90; in 1910 it was 39.65, and in 1911 it was 39.64. The
statistics for the past ten years, covering arrests for all causes,
are as follows: —
Total
x<«-
^^Sc'i"'
J Arresu.
rese«iu.
1 "^^"-
1902, ....
. . .1 34,732
10,631
30.61
1903, ....
. . -i 43,033
14,644
29.38
1904, ....
. . .: 50,265
1S,030
35.86
1905, ....
. . -1 48,358
17,167
35.50
1906, ....
. . .1 49,906
IS.OOI
36.06
1907, ....
. . .1 57,078
20,9<S2
36.77
1908, ....
. . -i 68,146
•26.113
38.32
1909, ....
. . .1 71,512
27,953
39.08
1910, ....
. . .; 71,201
^,233
39.65
1911, ....
. . . 1 70,442
27.613
39.64
In the arrests for drunkenoes the percentage of nonresidents
increased steadily for many years, but in 1911 there was a de-
crease from 1910 of seventj'rax hundredths of one per cent.
The following table gives the statistics for eleven years.
1901,
1902,
1903,
1904,
1905,
1906,
1907,
1908,
1909,
1910,
1911,
19,4SS
29.90
19,167
39.35
27,757
42.53
33,511
43.36
32,28S
43.14
32,3SO
44.57
37,3S9
45.63
42,468
47.73
45,321
47.62
47,732
47.86
46.394
47.10
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Police Work on Jury Lists.
For the fourth year the police department, under the pro-
visions of chapter 34S, Acts of 1907, has assisted the election
commissioners in ascertaining the qualifications of persons pro-
posed for jury service. The police findings in these three years
ma\ be summarized as follows: —
1905.
1909.
1910.
19U.
Totals.
Dead or could not be found in
Boston.
Phj-sically incapacitated, . .
7S0
492
SOS
223
1,055
332
1,356
499
3,999
1,546
Con\-icted of crime,
156
58
1S3
587
9S4
Unfit for various reasons, .
119
266
707
466
1,558
Apparently fit, . . . .
6,352
6,870
7,565
9,57S
30,365
Total of names submitted to
police.
7,899
8,225
9,812
12,486
38,452
Automobile Laws.
The automobile prosecutions in 1911 numbered 1,S99, as
against 2,334 in 1910. The reduction in the number is due
largely to the repeal of the pro\-ision of law which required
professional chauffeurs to wear badges when driving, and to
the precise character of the evidence which must be presented
in a prosecution for overspeeding. These figures include
prosecutions in parks as well as in streets, for \nolation of the
State law or the park rules, but they do not include prosecutions
of drivers of automobiles for violations of the street traffic
regulations. To this circimistance may be ascribed any ap-
parent variance with the figures given in the tables of arrests
in detail.
The first record of an automobile prosecution by the Boston
police was made only ten years ago, when the single offence
of the year 1901 was the dri\'ing of a motor car in a public
park without a permit. In 1902 there were 33 prosecutions;
in 1903, 67; in 1904, 179; m 1905, 102; in 1906, 308; in 1907,
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POLICE COMMISSIONER.
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961; in 190S, 1,S65; in 1909, 2,196; in 1910, 2,334; in 1911,
1,S99.
Accidents to persons, due to the operation of automobiks,
are first recorded in the department reports in 1900. Begummg
at that year their number to the present time is shown in tic
following table: —
YiHR.
Killed.
Inja«.i.
1900, .
-
19
1901, .
-
S
1902. .
2
1
17
1903,
24
1901, .
55
1905, .
2
7S
1906, .
1
110
1907, .
7
105
190S, .
6
127
1909,
9
251
1910,
13
2S0
1911,
14
351
Of the 14 persons killed in 1911, 3 were riding in automobOs
and 11 were struck by automobiles. Of the 351 persons injured
in 1911, 52 were riding in automobiles and 299 were struck bjr
automobiles.
Charges agaixst Poucemex.
Many c-itizens, especially those of high social or busines
standing, seem to believe that any charge made by them to the
Police Commissioner against a policeman should be accepted
as proven, and that thereupon the commissioner, at his dis-
cretion, should inflict punishment. They sometimes sbarr
irritation when the commissioner declines to take a course whkA
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would be contrary to the simplest rules of fair play, would be
in \'iolation of statute law and would be condemned and re-
versed by any court ha\-ing jurisdiction. Every member of the
Boston Police Force is subject to the civil service laws and is
protected by them. Acts of 1904, chapter 314, provides that a
policeman, in common with other public servants similarly em-
ployed, "shall hold such office or employment and shall not •
be removed therefrom, lowered in rank or compensation, or
suspended, or, without his consent, transferred from such office
or employment to any other except for just cause and for reasons
specifically given in writing." The act provides further that
"the person sought to be removed, suspended, lowered or
transferred shall be notified of the proposed action and shall be
furnished with a copy of the reasons required to be given by
section one, and shall, if he so requests in writing, be given
a public hearing, and be allowed to answer the charges pre-
ferred against him either personally or by counsel." The rules
of the department under which charges are heard are a careful
amplification of this basic law.
PoucE Trux Bo.vrds.
A misunderstanding seems to exist as to the relations estab-
lished by law between a trial board and the Police Commissioner.
Section 10, chapter 291, Acts of 1906, pro\'ides that the Police
Commissioner "shall from time to time appoint a trial board
to be composed of three captains of police, to hear the evidence
in such complaints against members of the force as the com-
missioner may deem advisable to refer to said board. Said i
trial board shall report its findings to said commissioner, who l|
may review the same and take such action thereon as he may |
deem advisable." 9
Because of the foregoing provision many seem to suppose i|
that when a trial board has heard a case and reported to the It
commissioner he may do with it as he pleases. This b an error.
^^'hen a trial board reports a finding of not guilty the com-
missioner has no authority to change it and of course can im-
pose no penalty.
WTien a trial board reports a finding of gxiilty, the commis-
sioner has the right to decide what the penalty shall be, to sus-
pend sentence or to place the case on file.
IS POLICE CO-ADIISSIOXER. [Jan.
Recommendations as to penalties or other disposition of
cases of convicted persons are made by trial boards, not under
the law, but at the request of the commissioner. He is there-
fore free to accept or to modify them according to his judgment
and information.
Though the commissioner has no power to change the find-
ing of a trial board as to guilt or innocence, he has the right,
for specific and sufficient reasons, to set aside a finding and or-
der a new hearing, which he may hold himself or may order to be
held by the original trial board or by another.
Persons who ilu-e Ser\tj) .\5 Pouce Coiemissioxers.
Because of frequent inquiries from within and without the
department I have had prepared a list of all Police Commis-
sioners who have ser\-ed since 1S7S, with the dates on which
they assumed and reUnquished office; also a schedule which
gives the names of commissioners in office at any given time
since that year. The police department was controlled prior
to 1S7S by the major and aldermen. The commissioners who
sen'ed from July, 1S7S, to Jidy, 1SS5, were nominated by the
mayor and c-onfirmed by the board of aldermen and the common
council by concurrent vote. The commissioners who ser\-ed
from July, ISSo, to June, 1906, were nominated by the Governor
and confirmed by the Executive Council. The act substituting
a single commissioner for a board of three was passed in 1906
and became effective in June of that year, the commissioner
being nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Ex-
ecutive Council.
The following are the names of persons who served as Police
Commissioners in the city of Boston from July S, 1S7S, to June
4, 1906: —
1912.]
PUBLIC DOCIDIENT — No. 49.
19
Xame.
Appointed.
Retired.
Henr>- S. RusseU,
July
8, 1S78
Marcl
1, 1880
Samuel R. Spinnej', .
July
8, 1S7S
May
3, 1880
James M. Bugbee,
July
8, 1878
May
5, 1879
Henry Walker, . . . .
^lay
5, 1879
April
21, 1882
Edward J. Jones,
March 26, 18S0
April
21, 1882
Thomas J. Gargan, .
May
3, 1880
April
21, 1882
Thomas L. Jenks,
AprU
22, 1882
July
24, 1885
Nathaniel Wales,
April
22, 1SS2
July
7, 1885
Benjamin D. Burle)', .
April
22, 1882
M&Y
6, 1883
Michael P. Curran, . . .
May
7, 1S83
July
24, 1885
Albert T. Whiting, . . .
July
24, 1885
May
6, 1895
WiUiam H.Lee, . . . .
July
24, 1885
May
28, 1894
WiUiam M. Osborne, .
July
24, 1885
April
30, 1893
Robert F. Clark
May
1, 1893
May
4, 1903
Augustus P. Martin, . . .
May
28, 1894
ilay
1, 1899
Charles P. Curtis, Jr., . .
May
6, 1895
May
1, 1905
Harry F. Adams,
May
1, 1899
June
4, 1906
William H. H. Emmons, .
May
4, 1903
June
4, 1906
Charles H. Cole, Jr., . . .
May
1, 1905
June
4, 1906
Stephen O'Meara, . . .
June
4, 1906
-
- -
The following schedule shows the commissioners in office
by periods, the name of the chainnan appearing first in each
group: —
July 8, 1878, to May 5, 1S79, .... RusselL
May 5, 1879, to March 1, 1880, . . .
tspmney.
Bugbee.
Walker.
20 POLICE CO:\DIISSIONER. [Jan.
March 1, ISSO, to March 26, ISSO, Spinney.
Walker.
March 26, ISSO, to ilay 3, ISSO, Walker.
Spinnej-.
Jones.
May 3, ISSO, to April 21, 1SS2, Walker.
Jones.
Gargan.
April 22, 1SS2, to May 6, 1SS3, Jenks.
Wales.
Burlcy.
May 7, 1SS3, to July 7, ISSo, Jenks.
Wales.
Curran.
July 7, ISSo, to July 24, ISSo, Jenks.
Curran.
July 24, 1SS5, to April 20, 1S93, Whiting.
Lee.
Osborne.
May 1, 1S93, to May 28, 1894 AMiiting.
Lee.
Clark.
May 28, 1S94, to May 6, 1895, Martin.
Whiting.
Clark.
May 6, 1S95, to ilay 1, 1899 Martin.
Clark.
Curtis.
May 1, 1899, to ilay 4, 1903, Clark.
Curtis.
Adams.
May 4, 1903, to May 1,1905, Emmons.
Curtis.
Adams.
May 1, 1905, to June 4, 1906 Cole.
Adams.
June 4, 1906, to date, O'Meara.
1912.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT -No. 49.
Street Traffic axd Traffic Rules.
As street traffic is carried on before the whole public the
enforcement or the failure to enforce the traffic rules is a sub-
ject upon which almost all citizens feel competent to express
themselves. Towards the end of the third year of the existence
of the rules made by the street commissioners to be enforced
by the police, it is worth while to examine the situation, following
lines laid down in a typical criticism lately published.
The writer affirms that the traffic rules are good but the
drivers do not know them; that "waj-faring men learn the
rules of the road by their enforcement, and these regulations
are not enforced."
The first prosecution under the street traffic rules was made
by the Boston police Jan. 26, 1909. In the thirty-four months
which have intervened, the prosecutions have numbered 4,297.
These are distinct from some thousands of prosecutions in Bos-
ton under the automobile laws of the State.
For each street traffic prosecution a policeman must find an
offence which he believes he can prove before a judge — not a
mere technicality, but a substantial offence; he must take the
name and address of the driver, often subject meanwhile, to
the complaints of people who abuse him for " holding up traffic; "
he must explain the case to a court, and a summons for the
driver, if granted, names a day in advance on which the charge
will be heard; he must serve the summons upon the defendant,
whether a resident of Boston or not; and he must attend at
court on the day appointed and again for any continuances
which may be ordered. In the light of the fact that there have
been more than 4,000 prosecutions under these conditions it is
fair to ask whether or not this particular kind of police duty,
among the thousand other kinds, has been neglected. It may
be said, moreover, that for every prosecution, probably twenty
warnings and explanations have been given to drivers by the
police.
The critic errs when he assumes that drivers do not know the
rules. When adopted by the street commissioners, nearly
three years ago, the rules were advertised in the newspapers at
at cost of about S3,000; a first edition of 40,000 copies in a
22 POLICE C0.M:>IISSI0NER. [Jan.
convenient form was printed and distributed, and subsequent
issues have carried the total well up towards 100,000; for three
weeks before the first prosecution was made the policemen on
duty in the crowded parts of the city, re-enforced by 50 men
brought in from outside di\Tsions, stood in the streets and ex-
plained to drivers what was required of them; and through
that periofl and long after the prosecutions were begun, all the
daily newspapers, as a matter of news, gave much space to the
operation of the rules. Drivers who are accustomed to working
in Boston know the rules, but, like many other citizens, even
of the best quality, some do not hesitate to do what is con-
venient for themselves whenever they think thej' will not be
called to account. Drivers coming to Boston irregularly from
a whole cxiuntryside which has no rules, are frequent though un-
intentional offenders.
The critic further asserts: "It is a matter of everj'day knowl-
edge that whole stretches of public highway are rendered im-
passable at times by the rows of deliverj* vans which stand
there for hours in clear contravention of the citj-'s ordinances."
I walk the streets a good deal and I have not seen one of
them "impassable" for a longer time than the two or three
minutes required to straighten out a crush — something mo\-ing
all the time.
That does not prove that the writer of the artic-le has not
seen streets "impassable," but I still may doubt that he knows
whether the vehicles standing at the curbstone were or were
not ^^oIating the trafBc rules, — there are now no "ordinances"
which apply.
Does be know, for instance, that the rules themaelves make
reasonable and necessary pro\Tsion for the standing, loading
and uxJoa/ling of all vehicles?
Does he know that not only by traffic ndes but under statute
law wagons in great numbers arc allowed to stand in the market
district, the most ciovvded in the city, and that if thej- were not
so allowed the handling and distribution of much of the food
supply of Boston and the suburbs could not be carried on?
Does he know that nearly 6,000 vehicles, offered for hire, are
laA\-fully licensed to stand in particular places in the streets, half
of them at least, in the nature of things, in the crowded and
1912.) PL'BLIC DOCU-MEXT — Xo. 49. 2.3
comparatively small section of the city proper lying north of
Boybton Street and east of Treniont and Court streets? Does
he know that those vehicles, practically none of which can be
housed in the section in which they work, transport the goods
of thousands of mercantile and manufacturing establishments
which could not exist without the facilities thus afforded?
Does he know that there are other thousands of vehicles
which cannot be licensed to stand in particular places in the
streets, because they are not at the service of the whole public,
but yet must be on hand to do the work of their owners and
the customers of their owners?
If all the policemen on day and night duty in the whole citj'
were concentrated in the business section in the daytime, and
their number were then doubled, they would hardly be enough
to watch and time the standing, loading and unloading of all
vehicles, but they would be enough, if they prosecuted every
\iolation of the traffic rules observed by them, to paralyze busi-
ness, and to carrj' loss, discomfort and even suffering through-
out the community. I do not hesitate to say that the police
even as now organized could so enforce the traffic rules as to
make ahnost impossible the continuance in business of hun-
dreds of our largest establishments employing tens of thousands
of persons, and serxing hundreds of thousands of customers.
This is especially true of the large department stores and the
daily newspapers, whose hundreds of wagons must stand at
the busiest times of the day and in the most crowded streets if
they are to be loaded with the goods and the newspapers which
supply the city and the suburbs.
If the police had not enforced the traffic rules promptly and
intelligently, and continued the enforcement in the face of all
kinds of opposition, the rules would have been forgotten in
thirty days. But if the enforcement had been narrow, technical
and blind to the absolute necessities of business, the merchants,
manufactmcrs and consumers would have suffered such loss
and inconvem'ence that as soon as the rules could have been
reached through the Legislature they would have been torn
to pieces. X'either the street commissioners nor the Police
Commissioner will soon forget the manner in which their offices
were besieged in the early days of the rules by merchants and
24 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
others who declared that unless they secured some relief they
would be forced out of business. ^lany amendments were
made and much discretion was allowed to the police by formal
action on the part of the street commissioners.
The regulation of street traffic is under constant study by
the public officials whom the law has made responsible. They
started with as much natural intelligence certainly as the
average citizen, and to that they have added years of practical
experience. They know the difficulties of their task, and have
knowledge of legal and other limitations affecting action that
can be taken or even attempted which are unknown to critics
and ad\'isers.
In the narrowness and crookedness of the streets, and the
variety and extent of the uses to which they must be put, the
business section of Boston bears not the remotest resemblance
to anvthing that can be found on the American continent or
perhaps in the whole world. To look for guidance, as some
have, to the policing of Fifth Avenue, New York, a thoroughfare
of splendid width, free from car tracks and crossed at right
angles for mile after mile by wide, straight streets, is absurd.
Speaking more broadly, Boston bears the same relation to New
York financially and in population that the city of Cambridge,
for instance, bears to Boston. The New York "traffic squad,"
so called, to which attention is often directed, consists of about
1,000 men, nearly 200 mounted, and of the whole number more
than 150 are officers of rank. The cost of this so-called " squad "
must be nearly $1,300,000 a year for salaries alone, or about
three-fourths as much as the total pay of all members of the
Boston Police Force, covering the whole city, day and night.
The plan of a " traffic squad" has been tested twice in Boston,
in each case for several years, and twice the squad has been
abolished by Boards of Police, ^^'hen I became commissioner
the idea was dead, and because of respect for the judgment of
my predecessors in the beginning, and afterwards in conformity
with my ovm study and experience, I have never sought to
re\-ive it. An arrangement which may be justified at great cost
in a city of 5,000,000 population with 11,000 policemen is not
likely to fit even proportionately in a city of 700,000 population
with a police force of less than 1,500 men of all grades. I could
1912.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — Xo. 49. 25
give reasons in great detail, but I will say only that to establish
a "traffic squad" would not add one man to the police force;
its Uicmbers would simply be taken from police di\-isions where
they are badly needed for general police purposes, and the fact
that to them was assigned a particular duty which now rests
upon all policemen would have the effect practically of leaving
to them alone work which is now done by hundreds of different
men.
Situated as Boston is, especially in the crowded section,
business can exist and develop only under the policy of give
and take, live and let Uve. Foot passengers and vehicles,
pleasure drivers and merchants must share the streets, each
class \-ielding something to the others, and all subject to wise
traffic rules enforced without favor but with intelligence and
reasonableness.
Respectfully submitted,
STEPHEN 0'.MEARA,
Police Commissioner for the Cily of Boston.
26
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
THE DEPARTMENT.
The police department is at present constituted as follows:
Police Commissioner.
Secretary.
Superintendent, .
Deputy superintendents.
Chief inspector, .
Captains,
[nspectors, .
Inspector of carriages (lieu-
tenant), .
The Police Force.
\ I Lieutenants,
3 Sergeants, .
1 Patrolmen, .
23 I Reser\-e men,
30 I
Total, .
1 '
36
95
1,193
105
1,4SS
Director,
Assistant director.
Foreman,
Signalmen, .
Mechanics, .
Signal Service.
Linemen,
Driver.
Total, .
Employees of the Department.
Clerks
Stenographers,
Messengers,
Matrons of house of deten-
tion,
Matrons of station houses.
Firemen on police steamers.
Van drivers.
Foreman of stable,
Hostlers 13
Assistant steward of city
prison, .... 1
Janitors, . . . . 16
Janitresses, .... 12
Telephone operators, . 3
Total, .... S6
Recapilvlatio
Police Commissioner and sccretar>',
Police force,
Signal Service,
Emploj'ees,
Grand total.
1,4SS
IS
1,594
1912.]
FVBUC DOCOIEXT — No. 49.
DlSTRIBCTIOX AXD CnAXGES.
The distribution of the force is shown by Table I. During
the year 57 patrolmen were promoted from the reser\'c men,
1 patrolman was reappointed, and 55 reserve men were ap-
pointed; 4 patrolmen discharged; 6 patrolmen and 3 resen-e
men resigned; 3 captains, 1 inspector, 3 lieutenants, 2 sergeants
and 10 patrolmen retired on pension; 2 captains, 1 sergeant
and 9 patrolmen died. (See Tables III., IV., V., VI.)
PoucE Officers en-jojed while ox Ditty.
The following statement shows the number of police officers
injured while on duty during the past year, the number of
duties lost by them on account thereof and the causes of the
injuries: —
Hot Ixjcbed.
Number of
Men injured.
Xumberof
Duties lost.
In arresting prisoners,
In pursuing criminals,
By stopping runaways,
By cars and other vehicles at crossings, .
Various other causes,
29
18
8
2
37
304
427
54
243
415
Totals,
94
1,443
Work of tiie Dep.\rt.ment.
Arrests.
The total number of persons arrested, counting each arrest
as that of a separate person, was 70,442, against 71,201 the
preceding year, being a decrease of 759. The percentage of
increase and decrease was as follows : —
Per. Cent.
Offences against the person, Decrease,
Offences against property, committed with %-iolence, Increase,
Offences against property, committed without vio-
lence, Increase,
Malicious offences against property, .... Increase,
Forgen,- and offences against the currency, . . Decrease,
Offences against the license laws, .... Increase,
Offences against chastity, morality, etc., . . . Decrease,
Offences not included in the foregoing, . . . Decrease,
3.39
11.69
3.26
23.35
13.04
4.13
1.07
1.37
28
POLICE CO:\i:\IISSIOXER.
[Jan.
There were G,57S persons arrested on ■narrants and 57,695
without warrants; 6,109 persons were summoned by the court;
67^6 persons were held for trial and 2,595 were released from
custody. The number of males arrested was 63,774; of females,
6,66S; of foreigners, 31,979, or appro.vimately 45.39 per cent.;
of minors, 7,656. Of the total number arrested, 27,613, or
39.19, per cent, were nonresidents. (See Tables X., XI.)
The nativity of the prisoners was as follow
West Indies,
United States, .
38,463
British Provinces, .
5,611
Ireland, .
13,758
England, .
1,617
France,
1.36
Gennanv, .
509
Italy, ....
2,734
Rassia,
2,841
China, . . .
522
Greece, . . .
275
Sweden, .
1,111
Scotland, .
942
Spain, . . .
64
Norway,
341
Poland, . . .
384
Australia, .
31
Austria,
187
Portugal, .
107
Finland, . . .
244
Denmark, .
87
Holland, . . .
33
Wales, . . .
16
East Indies,
11
Turkey,
South -\merica,
Switzerland,
Belgium, .
.\rmenia, .
.\frica,
Hungary-, .
.\sia, .
.\rabia,
Mexico,
Japan,
SjTia, .
Roumania,
Egj-pt,
Cuba, . .
Pnissia,
Lithuania, .
Bulgaria,
New Zealand,
Total,
111
1
70,442
The number of arrests for the year is 70,442, being a de-
crease of 759 from last year and 2,765 more than the average
for the past five years. There were 46,3W persons arrested
for drunkenness, being 1,338 less than last year, and 2,534
more than the average for the past five years. Of the arrests
for drunkenness this year there was a decrease of 2.S9 per cent,
in males and a decrease of LSI per cent, in females from last
year. (See Tables XL, XIII.)
Of the total number of arrests for the year (70,442) 552 were
for \-iolations of the city ordinances; that is to say, 1 arrest
in 127 was for such offence, or .78 per cent.
Fifty-four and si.xty-three one-hundredths per cent, of the
1912.1 PUBLIC DOCUMENT — Xo. 49. 29
persons taken into custody were between the ages of twenty
and forty. (See Table XII.)
The number of persons punished by fines was 13,772, and
the fines amounted to 8129,432.96. (See Table XIII.)
Eighty-three persons were committed to the State Prison, j
5,470 to the House of Correction, 110 to the Women's Prison, .
ISl to the Reformatorj- Prison and 2,783 to other institutions. I
The total years of imprisonment were 3,639 years, 7 months,
1 day; the total number days' attendance in court by oflBcers [
was 45,766; and the witness fees earned by them amounted to '
§13,326.32. j
The value of property taken from prisoners and lodgers was i
§115,771.75. I
Si.Kty-six witnesses were detained at station houses; 88 were !
accommodated with lodgings, an increase of 71 from last year. j
There was an increase of 16.93 per cent, from last year in the \
number of insane persons taken in charge, an increase of about j
12.G6 per cent, in the number of sick and injured persons ;
assisted, and a decrease of about 3.56 per cent in the number j
of lost children cared for. j
The average amount of property reported stolen in the city '
for the five years from 1907 to 1911, inclusive, was 8159,253.87; •.
in 1911 it was 8166,812.71, or 87,558.84 more than the average. I
The amount of property stolen in and out of the city, which •
was recovered by the Boston police, was 8282,126.48, as against i
§354,466.73 last year, or 872,340.25 less. •
The average amount of fines imposed by courts for the five ?
years from 1907 to 1911, inclusive, was 8139,817.12; in 1911 !
it was 8129,432.96, or 810,384.06 less than the average. I
The average number of days' attendance in coiul was 43,947; {
in 1911 it was 45,766, or 1,819 more than the average. The '
average amount of witness fees earned was 812,774.59; in 1911 |
it was 813,326.32, or 8551.73 more than the average. (See \
Table XIII.) j
Drunkenness. 1
In arrests for drunkenness the average number per day was |
127. There were 1,3.38 less persons arrested than in 1910, — j
a decrease of 2.80 per cent.; 47.10 per cent, of the arrested ]
persons were nonresidents and 48.56 per cent, were of foreign I
birth. (See Table XI.)
30 POLICE COMMISSIONER.
Bureau of Criminal Inrestigaiion.
The "Rogues' Gallerj-" now contains 36,313 photographs,
29,474 of which are photographs with Bertillon measurements,
a system used by this department during the past ten years.
In accordance with the Re\Tsed Laws, chapter 225, sections IS
and 21, we are allowed photographs with Bertillon measure-
ments taken of con\icts in the State Prison and Reformatory-,
a number of which have already been added to our Bertillon
cabinets. This, together with the adoption of the system by
the department in 1S9S, b and will continue to be of great
assistanc-e in the identification of criminals. A large number of
important identifications have thus been made during the
year for this and other polic-e departments, through which the
sentences in many instances have been materially increased.
The records of 1,844 criminals have been added to the records
kept in this Bureau, which now contains a total of 34,220. The
number of cases reported at this office which have been in-
vestigated during the year is 10,424. There are 22,60S cases
recorded on the assignment books kept for this purpose, and
reports made on these cases are filed away for future reference.
Letters and telegrams to the number of about 2,750 yearly are
now filed with the numbered reports to which they refer, so
that all the papers pertaining to a case can be found in the
same envelope, thus simplifying matters when information is
desired on any case. The system of indexing adopted by this
Bureau for the use of the department now contains a list of
records, histories, photographs, dates of arrests, etc., of about
130,000 persons. There are also " histories and press clippings,"
now numbering 6,373, by this Bureau, in envelope form, for
police reference.
The finger-print system of identification, which was adopted
in June, 1906, has progressed in a satisfactory- manner, and with
its development it is expected that the identification of crimi-
nals will be facilitated. It has become verj- useful in tracing
criminalsand furnishingcorroborating e\idence in many instances.
The statistics of the work of this branch of the ser\ice are
included in the statement of the general work of the depart-
ment; but as the duties are of a special character, the following
statement will be of bterest: —
1912.]
PUBLIC DOCU^IEXT — No. 49.
31
Number of persons arrested, principally for felonies, . . . 1,005
Fugitives from justice from other States, arrested and delivered
to officers from those States, 53
Number of cases investigated, 10,424
Number of extra duties performed, 1,698
Number of cases of homicide and supposed homicide investi-
gated and e\idence prepared for trial in court, ... 55
Number of cases of abortion and supposed abortion investi-
gated and e\-idence prepared for court, 6
Number of days spent in court bj- officers, 3,062
.\mount of stolen property recovered, .... S19S,I94.68
Number of years' imprisonment imposed by court, 569 years, 7 months
Number of photographs added to " Rogues' Gallery," . . 2,000
Officers det.viled to .assist Medic.\l E.x-^mlxers.
Causes of Death in Cases inrcstigakd.
Homicides, .
Manslaughter,
Murders,
Natural causes,
Poison, .
Railroads,
Railwaj' (street).
Stillborn,
Suffocation, .
Suicides,
Teams. .
Abortion,
2
-Occidents,
111
.■Ucoholism, .
6
Asphj-xiation (gas).
5
.Automobile, .
IS
Bums, ....
32
Drowning,
61
Electricity, .
2
Elevators, . . .
14
E.\haustion, .
74
Explosion,
2
Exposure,
2
Fire engine, .
1
Total,
Causes
.\bortion,
Asphj-xiation (gas),
.■Accidents,
Automobile,
Bums, .
Drowning,
Elevators,
Electricity,
E.vplosion,
Exposure,
Falling burlap.
Falling lumber,
Falling stone,
Falling derrick.
of Death where Inquests were held.
Falling iron
Falling tree, .
Fall", . .
Fire engine, .
Machinery, .
I Natural causes,
Poison, .
Railroads (steam),
Railway (street),
Suicides,
Teams. .
3
14
11
324
33
60
24
13
1
SS
21
922
Total.
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
(Jan.
M1SCELL.V.VEOUS Business.
19»-0».
19W-H.
uvt-n.
AbandoEcd children cared for, .
8
15
5
Accidents reported,
2,978
3,187
3,315
Automobiles cared for, ....
_
12
Buildings found open and made secure, .
Cases investigated,
3,420
2,707
2,914
25,656
27,9frt
25,617
Dangerous buildings reported, .
11
•23
31
Dangerous chimneys reported, .
6
3
12
Dead bodies caredVor, . . . .
343
36S
411
Defettire bridges reported,
3
1
Defective cesspools reported, .
199
152
ISS
Defective coal holes,
1
5
4
Defective drains and vaults reported,
3
9
4
Defective fire alarms and clocks reported.
S
4
Defective gas pipes reported, .
79
62
58
Defectire hydrants reported, .
104
139
215
Defccti\-e lamps reported, ....
13,247
36,502
14,572
Defective fences,
10
16
17
Defective sewers reported.
103
84
167
Defective streets and sidewalks reported.
9,669
9,04S
11,199
Defective trees,
16
59
52
Defective water gates, ....
20
S
33
Defective water meters, ....
3
11
—
Defective water pipes reported.
177
203
ISO
Defective wires and poles reported.
30
79
24
Disturbances suppressed, ....
1,253
767
871
E-Vtra duties performed, . . . .
31,S74
33,997
35.292
Fire alarms given,
1,962
2,045
2,256
Fires extingnishe<l,
735
865
899
Insane persons taken in charge.
385
366
428
Intosdcatcd i>ersons assisted, .
_
29
33
Lost children restored, . . . .
2,189
2,247
2,167
Missing persons reported, . . . .
305
a46
361
Missing persons found, . . . .
140
17S
159
Persons rescued from drowning.
61
33
15
Sick and injured persons assisted, .
4,397
4,605
5,188
Stray teams reported and put up, .
132
181
230
Water running to waste reported, .
377
345
381
Witne^cs detained,
57
7S
66
Lost, Ab.\nt)o.ved .vxd Stolen Propertt.
On Dec. I, 1910, there were SIS articles of lost, abandoned or
stolen property in the custody of the property clerk; 710 were
received during the year, IIS were s^^ld, for which S373.13 was
received and paid over to the city collector, and "0 delivered
to owners, finders or administrators, leaving 1,040 on hand.
1912.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 49. aS
Special Events.
The following is a list of special events transpiring during
the year, and gives the nuinFxr of police detailed for duty at
each : —
mi. Men,
Jan. 19, Police ball 95
Feb. 15, Firemen's ball, 51
Mar. 17, Evacuation Day parade, 360
Mar. 17, Hibernian parade, 69
April 19, Marathon race 439
May 26, High school cadet's pamle, 423
May 29, Ringling Bros, circus parade 100
May 30, Work horse parade, 73
June 5, ,\ncient and Honorable Artillerj* parade, . . 150
June 10, Dorchester Day celebration, 171
June 11, Ninth Regiment parade, 52
June 16, "Xight before" in Charlesftown, 231
June 17, Anniversarj', battle of Hunker Hill, .... 620
Jul3' 4, Roxburj' Day celebration, 207
July 4, Fireworks, Charles River Basin, 98
Julj- 14, Funeral of Capt. Edward F. Gaskin, .... 68
Sept. 4, Labor Day parade, 810
Oct. 12, Columbus Day celebration, 1,247
Nov. 7, State election, bulletin Ixards, 367
Nov. S, Funeral of Capt. George W. Wescott 67
Nov. 11, Har%ard-Carlisle foot-bail game, 96'
Nov. 11, Departure of Archbishop O'Connell for Rome, 73
Nov. 18, Har%-ard-Dartmouth foot-ball game, .... 123
Nov. IS, Special detail at Division 4, foot-ball night, ... 97
Nov. 25, Harvard- Yale foot- ball game, 122
Nov. 25, Special detail at Division 4, foot-ball night, . . 272
IxsPECTOB OF Claims.
The officer detailed to assi.^t the committee on claims and
law department in investigating claims against the city for
alleged damage of various kinds reports that he investigated
051 cases, 4 of which were on account of damage done by dogs.
34 POLICE C0:\I:MISSI0NER. [Jan.
Other Services performed. j
Number of cases investigated, Col f
Number of witnesses examined, 4,410 ''
Number of notices ser\ed, 2,440
Number of pictures taken, 221
Number of permissions granted, 3,693
Number of days in court, 4S
Number of da}-s at the conmiittee on claims, .... 29
i
HorsE OF Detextio.x. ;
The house of detention for women is located in the court
house, Somerset Street. All the women arrested in the city
proper are taken to the house of detention in vans provided
for the purpose. They are then held in charge of the matron
until the ne.vt session of the court before which they are to j
appear. If sentenced to imprisonment, they are returned to ;
the house of detention, and from there conveyed to the jail or ;
institution to which they have been sentenced. \
During the year there were 5,313 women committed, viz.: — |
For drunkenness, 3,142
For larceny, 499
For night walking, 277
For fornication, 140
For being idle and disorderly 25
For assault and batterj', 30
For adultery, 23
For %iolation of the liquor law, 11
For keeping a house of ill fame, 24
For witneses, 4
For county jail, S40
For municipal court, 90
For various other offences, 208
Total, 5,313
PoucE SiGXAL Service.
Signal Bores.
The total number of boxes now in use is 4&4. Of these, 279
are connected with the underground system and ISo with the
overhead.
1912.] PUBLIC DOCmiEXT — Xo. 49. 35
Miscellaneous Work.
During the year the employees of this senice responded to
1,001 trouble calls; inspected 464 signal boxes, 15 signal desks
and 921 batteries; repaired 100 box movements, 9 registers,
35 polar box bells, 27 locks, 1 time stamp, 4 gongs, 1 stable
motor, 1 stable register, 6 -sibrator belb, besides repairing all
bell and electric light work at headquarters and the various
stations. There have been made 27 line blocks, 14 plungers,
12 complete box fittings, and a large amount of small work
that cannot be classified.
The underground work done during the year consisted of
laj-ing about 13,808 feet of 7 conductor cable on Division 11
and placing 5 underground post boxes on Di\ision 11.
There are in use in the signal sennce 28 horses, 19 patrol
wagons and 13 pungs.
During the year the wagons made 42,06-5 runs, covering an
aggregate distance of 35,212 miles. There were 44,380 prisoners
conveyed to the station houses; 1,000 runs were made to take
injiu-ed and insane persons to station houses, the hospitals or
their homes; and 501 runs were made to take lost children to
station houses. There were 706 runs to fires and 52 runs for
liquor seizures. During the year there were 464 signal boxes
in use, arranged on 60 circuits; 531,969 telephone messages
and 3,281,724 "on-duty" calls were sent over the lines.
The following list comprises the propertj- in the signal service
at the present time: —
15 signal desks.
60 circuits.
464 street signal boxes.
14 stable call boards.
57 test boxes.
921 cells of batter}'.
446,580 feet underground cable.
332,950 feet overhead cable.
40,670 feet of duct.
45 manholes.
1 buggy.
1 line wagon.
1 express wagon.
1 mugwump wagon.
1 traverse pung.
2 small sleighs.
1 caravan.
H.VRBOR Seraice.
The special duties performed by the police of Division 8,
comprising the harbor and the blands therein, were as follows: —
36 POLICE COADIISSIOXER. [Jan. }j
Value of property recovered, consisting of boats, rigging, float- J
stages, etc., §12,893.04 ']
Number of '.-esscls from foreign ports boarded, .... 742 |
Number of vessels ordered fromi the channel to proper anchorage, 1,429 'j
Number of vessels removed from channel by police steamers, 80 il
Number of cases of assistance rendered, 135 '.t
Number of cases of assistance rendered to wharfingers, . . 5 ' •
Number of permits granted vessels, in the stream, to dis-
charge cargoes, 50 i
Number of obstructions removed from channel, ... 45 i ■
Number of alarms of fire on the waterfront attended, . . 95 !'
Number of fires extinguished without alarm, .... 1
Number of boats challenged 2,146 ;
Sick and bjured persons assisted, 15
Cases investieated 1,042 I;
Dead bodies recovered, 40 i'
Rescued from drowning, S 1
Number of vesels ordered to put up anchor lights, ... 9
Number of vessels assigned to anchorage, 1,429
The total number of vessels that arrived in this port during
the year was 11. 444. Of this nunaber, 9,926 came from domestic ;'
ports, 776 from ports in the British Pro\-inces and 742 from
foreign port«. Of the latter, 702 were steamers, 12 ships, IS
barks and 10 schooners.
'\
The police boat "Ferret" was in commission from June 11
to Xov. 1, 1911, in Dorchester Bay. She covered a distance of jj
.5,000 miles; made 5 arrests for assault and battery; recovered ;[
property valued at S1,30S; rescued 40 persons from disabled .]
boats; made secure IS yachts that had broken away from their j
moorings; quellefl 10 disturbances; investigated 20 cases, and i|
notified 12 owners of power boats to have mufflers attached to jj
their exhausts. j
Horses. j
On the 1st of December, 1910, there were SO horses in the !
ser\ice. During the year 1 was sold, 9 purchased, 7 shot on
acc-ount of Ijeing di.sabled and 2 died. .\t the present time there
are 79 in the service as shown bv Table IX.
1912.]
PUBLIC DOCOIENT — No. 49.
37
^'EHICXE SeR\1CE.
Automobiles.
There are 7 automobiles in the senice at the present time; 2
for general use, attached to headquarters; 2 for the Back Bay
an^i Fenways, attached to Di\-ision 16; 1 in the Dorchester
District, attached to Division 11; 1 in the West Roxbury
District, attached to Division 13; 1 in the Brighton District,
attached to Division 14.
The following return shows the extent and nature of the
service performed by the automobiles during the year: —
XCJIBETl.
r^yson
Duty.
MUes ran.
Arrests.
Fire
Alarm,
etc
Persona
cau-
tioned.
Lost
Children.
etc.
Sick,
etc
35, . .
36,
3S, . .
40,
6,774, . .
277
2S9
300
283
9,595
10,115
15,000
18,500
500
260
92
78
5
6
21
53
475
175
300
67
2
4
3
9
3
5
14
9
Total, .
1,149 53,210
930 1 85
1,017
18
31
Cost of Running Automobiles.
Pay of officers, S3,777 50
Repairs 2,883 92
Tires, 912 72
Gasoline, 622 21
Oil S7 02
Rent of garage, 1^238 09
License fees, 20 00
Total, S9,541 46
38 POLICE COMMISSIOXER. [Jan.
Ambulances. j
The department is now equipped with 10 ambulances, located \
in the following police divisions: 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 '
and 16. i,
During the jear the ambulances responded to calls to convey |
sick or injured persons to the following places: —
City Hospital, 991
City Hospital (Relief Station, HajTnarket Square), . . . 715
Calls where ser\-ices were not required, 237 I
City Hospital (Relief Station, Eajt Boston) 233 \
Massachusetts General Hospital 130 f
Home, 103 \
Grace Hospital, 63 -,
Carney Hospital, 27 \
Morgue, 22 '
Police station houses, 21
From fires, 7 j
Lj-ing-in Hospital, 7 j
Homoeopathic Hospital, 5 |
Faulkner Hospital, 4 j
Emerson Hospital, 2 :
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 2
Boston State Hospital 1 J
City Prison, 1 >
Fenway Hospital, 1 ;
Frost Hospital, 1 j
Total, 2,573
191i
PUBLIC DOCUMENT-
39
Ust of Vehicles used by the DepartmeiU
Divisions.
1
1
<2
1
<
1
3
>
<
J
1
1
1
Headquarters,
Division 1,
Division 2,
Di\-ision 3,
Division 4,
Di^^sion 5,
Di\-ision 6,
Division 7,
Di\-ision S,
Dinsion 9,
Di^-ision 10,
Dinsion 11,
Di\Tsion 12,
Di%-ision 13,
Di\-ision 14,
Division 15,
Division 16,
Joy Street stab
e,
1
5
2
1
1
1
2
1
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
i
2
_
_
-
1
1
1
4
2
3
1
2
2
2
3
3
2
3
6
2
8
6
3
4
23
Totals,
19
6
7
13
5
11
7
7
75
Public Carruges.
During the year there were 1,631 carriage licenses granted,
being a decrease of 83 as compared with last year; 356 motor
carriages were licensed, being an increase of 39 as compared
with last year.
POLICE com:missioxer.
[Jan.
There has been a decrease of 122 in the number of horse-
drawn licensed carriages during the year.
There were 72 articles, consisting of umbrellas, coats, etc.,
left in carriages during the year, which were tiu-ned over to the
inspector; 20 of these were restored to the owners, and the
balance placed in the keeping of the lost property bureau.
The following is a detailed statement concerning licenses for
public carriages and for drivers of hacks and cabs: —
Xumbcr of applications for carriage licenses received,
Xuniber of carriages licensed, ....
Number of licenses transferred.
Number of licenses cancelled or revoked,
Number of carriages inspected,
Applications for drivers' licenses reported upon.
Number of complaints against drivers investigated,
Nimiber of warrants obtained.
Number of days spent in court.
Articles left in carriages reported by citizens,
Articles found in carriages reported by drivers.
Drivers' applications for licenses rejected.
1,632
1,631
69
94
1,632
1,520
36
10
14
23
72
4
W.\GO.\ LlCEXSES.
Licenses are granted to persons or corporations to set up and
use trucks, wagons or other vehicles to convey merchandise
from place to place within the city for hire.
During the year 5,254 applications for such licenses were
received, 5,241 of which were granted and 13 rejected.
Of the licenses granted, 60 were subsequently cancelled for
nonpayment of the license fee, S for other causes and 20 trans-
ferred to new locations. (See Tables XIV., XVL)
1912.]
PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 49.
Listing 3L\le Residents of Boston, etc
Yeab.
May
Canvass.
plications.
Refused
Certificotes.
cfrlS^
Total Men
1903, . . .
181,045
3,412
.3
3,359
184,404
19(y, .
193,195
1,335
55
1,280
194,475
1905. . .
I lM,5i7
705
8
697
195,244
1906, .
1 195,446
775
24
751
196,197
1907, . . .
195,900
782
28
754
196,654
1908, . . .
1 201,255
1,302
57
1,245
202,500
1909, . . .
' 201,391
8(M
29
775
202,166
1910,' . .
203,603
897
47
850
204,453
1911,1 . .
i 206,825
1
762
31
731
207,556
1903, . .
• Changed to April 1.
Women Voters Verified.
14 611
1904, . .
15 633
1905, .
14 591
1906, .
13 427
1907, . .
12 822
1908, .
11 915
1909, . .
. . 11,048
10 486
1910, . .
1911, . .
. . 9,935
(See Tables XX, XXL, XXII.)
Listing Expenses.
The expenses of listing residents, not including the services
rendered by the members of the police force, were as follows: —
Printing, 813,880 00
Clerical scr^^ce, 6,449 46
Stationery 1_S51 49
Interpreters, 917 77
Filing cases, tables, etc., I44 28
Telephone, S6 68
Total.
S23,329 68
42 POLICE CO-ALMISSIONER. [Jan.
Xwnber of Policemen employed in Listing.
April 1, 1,137
AprilS, 1,094
April 4, 6.50
April 5 224
April 6, 2
Special Pouce.
Special police officers are appointed to serve without pay
from the city, on the written appUcation of any officer or board
in charge of a department of the city of Boston, or on the
application of any responsible corporation or person, such cor-
poration or person to be liable for the official misconduct of
the person appointed.
During the year endmg Nov. 30, 1911, there were 678 special
police officers appointed, 7 applications for appointment were
refused for cause.
Appointments were made on applications received as fol-
lows: —
From State departments, 9
From city departments, 119
From railroad corporations, 159
From other corporations or associations, 163
From theatres and other places of amusement, .... 157
From private institutions, 64
From churches, • . . 7
Total, 678
R.ULRO.\D Police.
There were 153 persons appointed railroad policemen during
the year, 3 of whom were employees of the New York, Xew
Haven & Hartford Raiboad, 136 of the Boston & IMaine Rail-
road, 9 of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lj-nn Raih-oad and 5
of the Boston Terminal Company.
MlSCELLVNEOUS LICENSES.
The total number of licenses issued of all kinds was 23,.567;
transferred, 146; cancelled and revoked, 3,153. The officers
investigated 191 complaints arising under these licenses. The
fees collected and paid into the city treasurj' amounted to
$44,125.75. (See Table XIV.)
1912.]
PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 49.
MusicuNs' Licenses.
Itinerant.
During the year there were 193 applications for itinerant
musicians' licenses received, 149 of which were granted, 19
rejected and 25 are pending; 1 was subsequently cancelled on
account of the nonpayment of the license fee, Iea\-ing the num-
ber in force November 30 last, 148.
The officer detailed for this special ser\-ice reports that during
the year he examined 110 instruments, as follows: —
Instrumexts.
Inspected,
Street organs,
Hand organs,
Molins,
Harps,
Flutes,
Accordions,
Guitars, .
Bagpipes, .
Banjos,
Ocarina, .
Totals,
47
45
IS
IS
12
12
12
12
6
6
7
6
4
4
1
1
2
2
1
1
Collectire.
Collective musicians' licenses are granted to bands of persons
over fifteen years of age to play on musical instruments in com-
pany with designated processions, at stated times and places.
The following shows the number of applications made for
these licenses during the last five years and the action taken
thereon : —
44
POLICE CO-AIMISSIOXER.
[Jan.
Year.
ApplicatioM.
Graoted.
Rejected.
1907,
154
152
2
190S
172
172
-
1909,
178
176
2
1910,
226
222
4
1911,
208
207
1
PCBUC LOLGING HotTSES.
By chapter 242 of the Acts of 1904 it is pro\-ided that in
cities of over 50,000 inhabitants every building not licensed as
an inn, in which 10 or more persons are lodged for 25 cents
each per day of twentj'-four hours, or for any part thereof, shall
be deemed a public lodging house, and by chapter 129 of the
Acts of 1911 this law is made to apply to all buildings in such
cities, notwithstanding that no price is charged for lodging.
In the city of Boston the Police Commissioner is authorized
to grant licenses to such lodging houses after the inspector of
buildings has certified that the building is pro^^ded with proper
exits and appliances for alarming the inmates in case of fire,
and the Board of Health has certified that the sanitary con-
dition is satisfactory.
For these licenses 26 applications were received during the
year, 17 of them were granted, 5 rejected, 1 was withdrawn and
3 are pending.
The following shows the location of the lodging houses and
number of persons lodged in each during the year: —
19 Causeway Street, .
164 Commercial Street,
194 Commercial Street,
234 Commercial Street,
Number lodged.
22,855
32,401
13.611
1912]
PUBLIC DOCOIEXT — No. 49.
45
Xamber Lodged.
2aS Commercial Street,
17 Da\-is Street, .
39 Edinboro Street, .
120 Eliot Street,
37 Green Street, .
187 Hanover Street, .
2 Hudson Street,
67 Pleasant Street, .
SS6 Washington Street,
1025 Washington Street,
1051 Washington Street,
1093 Washington Street,
1202 Washington Street,
Total, . . . •
27,365
35,174
15,650
47,867
36,76i
54,313
2,635
21,276
77,499
37,485
40,590
20,687
41,971
537,251
C.UIRTIXG D.VN'GEROUS We.VPOXS.
The follo\\'ing return shows the number of applications made
to the Police Commissioner for licenses to carry loaded pistols
or revolvers in this Commonwealth, during the past five years,
the number of such applications granted and the number re-
fused: —
Yeab.
ApplicatiOM.
Greeted.
r^tiued.
1907,
CSl
625
56
190S, ■ . .
1,020
SS2
13S
1909,
871
800
71
1910,
931
829
102
1911
931
814
87
46 POLICE CO:\BIISSIOXER. [Jan.
These licenses are granted, in a large measure, to express and
bank messengers, watchmen, special policemen and others
whose occupations and characters establish a prima facie case
in their favor.
Small Lo.vn- Licenses.
From Dec. 1, 1910, to July 19, 1911, 11 applications for small
loan licenses were received. Seven of these were granted, 2
rejected and 2 cancelled.
By chapter 727 of the Acts of 1911 the regulating of the busi-
ness of making small loans was placed in the hands of a super-
^■isor whose appointment is provided for by the act which took
effect July 19, 1911.
Pensions .vnt) BEN-xnTS.
Dec. 1, 1910, there were 211 pensioners on the roll. During
the year 13 died, \-iz., 2 captains, 2 sergeants and 9 patrolmen;
and 19 were added, viz., 3 captains, 1 inspector, 3 lieutenants,
2 sergeants and 10 patrolmen, lea^^ng 217 on the roll at date
including the widows of 12 and the mother of 1 policeman, who
died of injuries received in the ser\-ice.
The payments on account of pensions during the past year
amounted to 8135,290.42, and it is estimated that $1.37,.54S.75
will be required for pensions in 1912. This does not include
pensions for 1 chief inspector, 1 captain, 1 inspector and 5
patrolmen, all of whom are sixty-five or over, and are entitled
to be pensioned on account of age and term of ser\ice.
The invested fund of the police charitable fund on the thir-
tieth day of November last amounted to $207,.5oO. Tliere are
66 beneficiaries at the present time, and there has been paid
to them the sum of 87,641.50 during the past year.
The invested fund of the Police ReUef Association on the
thirtieth day of November was 81.37,845.38.
FlX.VNCI.VL,
A requisition was made on the cit>- council for the sum of
82,252,400.20 to meet the running expenses of the department,
including the pensioned police officers, house of detention,
station house matrons, listing persons twenty years of age or
more, and police signal service for the financial year.
1912.] PUBLIC DOCIDIENT — No. 49. 47
The total cxpenditiires for police purposes during the past
year, including the pensions, house of detention, station house
matrons and listing persons twenty years of age or more, but
exclusive of the maintenanc-e of the police signal sernce, were
S2,l 17,768.92. (See Table XVII.)
The total revenue paid into the city treasmy- from fees for
licenses over which the police have supervision, and for the sale
of unclaimed and condemned property, etc., was $45,287.47.
(See Table XIV.)
The cost of maintaining the police signal service during the
year was 854,055.68. (See Table X\UI.)
48
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PUBLIC DOCU.AIENT — Xo. 49.
T.^BLE III.
List of Officers retired during the Year, giving Age at the Time of
Retirement and the Xumber of Years' Service of Each.
Name.
Cause of
Retiri-mcnt.
Age at
Time of Re-
Sen-ice.
Ahem, John L., . . .
Incapacitated,
46 years,
21 years.
Carlstein, Carl,
Incapacitated,
46 years.
16 years.
Clark, Ashton D., . . .
Incapacitated,
4S years,
20 j'ears.
CoUins, James.T., .
Age, . .
65 years.
34 years.
Danforth, Benjamin F.,
Incapacitated,
54 years.
23 years.
Fottler, William, . . .
Age, . .
65 years,
40 years.
Frohock, Millard M., . .
Age, . .
60 years.
29 years.
Good, John J., ...
Incapacitated,
50 years,
26 years.
Hawthorne, George E., .
Incapacitated,
45 years,
17 years.
Mahonej-, Dennis, .
Age, . .
65 years,
34 years.
McAdams, Charles W., . .
Incapacitated,
39 years.
10 years.
O'Xeill, James, . . .
Age, . .
65 years.
30 years.
Pease, Edward A., .
Incapacitated,
57 years.
27 years.
Rich, Hiram H., . ". .
Age, . .
65 years,
33 years.
Rile}', James, ....
^'etcran.
61 years.
18 years.
Ritter, Daniel A., .
Age, . .
61 years,
38 years.
Shannon, Andrew, .
Veteran, . | 6S years,
33 j'cars.
Tighe, Charles H., . . .
Age, . . 65 years,
38 years.
Waldron, Edwin A.,
Age, . . 60 years.
27 years.
52 POLICE COiOIISSIOXER. (Jan.
TiBLE IV.
List of Offxers who were proirUiUd abote the Rank of Patrolman during
the Tear aiding Xor. 30, 1911.
DiTZ.
Xame and Rank.
Jan. 5,1911 I Lieut. James P, Canney to the rank «rf captain.
April 18, 1911 i Lieut. CharieE W. Searles to the rank of captain.
April 2S, 1911 i Lieut. Fraacif J. Hird to the rank of captain.
July IS, 1911 I Lieut. Herbert W. Goodwin to the rank of captain.
Nov. 16, 1911 i Lieut. Uu^ J. Lee to the rank of captain.
Feb. 2, 1911 i Sergt. Joseph F. Loughlin to the rank of inspector.
Jan. .5,1911 ' Sergt. Jeremiiii F. Galli van to the rank of lieutenant.
Feb. 22,1911 ' .Scrgt. Joh= W, Riordan to the rank <rf Eeutcnant.
April 18, 1911 ; Sergt. Jaxops E, Hines to the rank ot Keutenant.
April IS, 1911 Sergt. Arthar B, ifcConnell to the rank of lieutenant.
July 18,1911 '. Sergt. PhiEp E- O'Xeil to the rank CM Keatenant.
Nov. 16, 1911 Sergt. John J, Eooney to the rank ch Beotenant.
Dec. 22, 1910 \ Patrolman Thozaas ^IcTieman to the rank of ser-
! geant.
Jan. 5, 1911 : Patrolman Fcsnk 31. Magee to the rank of sergeant.
Feb. 2, 1911 Patrolman Civkzs J. Farrell to the rank of sergeant.
Feb. 2, 1911 Patrolman Join F. Linton to the rank of sergeant.
Feb. 14, 1911 \ Patrohnan Patrick J. McDonougfa to the rank of
I sergeant.
Feb. 22, 1911 ' Patrolman Tiraothy 3L Ferris to the rank of ser-
\ geant.
April 1,1911 Patrohnan itstshew Killen to the rank of sergeant.
April IS, 1911 ' Patrolman WlDkm J. Flynn to the tank of sergeant.
April 18, 191 1 Patrolman .\nbiir J. Putnam to the rank of sergeant.
April 18, 1911 Patrolman Jo&ifl ilcGrath to the rank of sergeant.
May 9, 1911 Patrolman Frederick J. Swendeman to the rank of
sergeant.
July 18,1911 ' Patrolman Sassjoei Dunlap to the rank of sergeant.
July 27, 1911 Patrolman WHEam J. Irwin to the rank of sergeant.
July 27, 1911 i Patrolman Tbomas W. O'Donnell to the rank of ser-
j geant.
Oct. 11, 1911 ' Patrolman JoSai W. Kilday to the rank of sergeant.
Oct. 11, 1911 Patrohnan Patrick J. O'Neil to the r.»iJ: of sergeant
Oct. 31,1911 Patrohnan Jo&n F. Mitchell to the rank of sergeant.
Oct. 31, 1911 Patrolman Qifto Farley to the rank of sergeant.
Nov. 16, 1911 Patrolman CLaries B. Ryan to the rank of sergeant.
1912.]
PUBLIC DOCOIEXT — No. 49.
53
Xwnber of Men in Each Rank in Actire Service at the End of the Present
Year icho were appointed on the Force in the Year slated.
Date ajtoi-vted.
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1883, . . .
1884, . . .
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1888, . . .
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1894, . . .
1895, . . .
1896, . . .
1897, . . .
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1900, . .
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1903, . . .
1904, . . .
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59
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1911.
Females. Totals.
Headquarters,
Division 1,
Division 2,
Di\Tsion 3,
Division 4,
Di\Tsion 5,
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Di\Tsion 7,
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Di\Tsion 9,
Di\-ision 10,
Di%-ision 11,
Di%Tsion 12,
Division 13,
Di%Tsion 14,
Di\Tsion 15,
Di\T.sion 16,
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4,363
7,256
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3,753
2,477
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3,507
1,851
1,072
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Pensions, 135,290 42
Fuel and light, 1S,741 49
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Printing and stationerj-, 12,346 38
Care and cleaning station houses and city prison, . . 7,603 72
Repairs to station houses and city prison, . . . 9,844 96
Repairs and supplies for police steamers, . . . . 8,071 00
Rent and care of telephones and lines 6,046 53
Purchase of liorses and vehicles, 2,235 79
Care and kcei^ing horses, harnesses and vehicles, . . 18,581 40
Carting prisoners to and from stations and citj- priMin, 2,043 95
Feeding prisoners 3,083 21
Medical attendance on prisoners, 3,788 15
Transportation, 1,689 49
Pursuit of criminals, 2,782 24
Cloth for uniforms and uniform helmets, .... 14,797 57
Badges, buttons, clubs, belts, insignia, etc., . . . 2,533 05
Traveling expenses and food for police, .... 175 90
Rent of buildings, 6,-359 60
Total -S2,0S3,6S6 16
Expen=€s of listing, $23^29 68
Expenses of house of detention and station house matrons, 10,753 08
Expenses of signal ser\ice (see Table X\'III), . . 54,055 68
Total S2,171,S24 60
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Total, S57,651 44
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Hay, grain, shoeing, etc., 6,322 65
Rent and care of buildings, 4,809 14
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Stable supplies and furniture, 101 92
Repairs on buildings, 818 52
Repairing wagons, harnesses, etc., 1,621 32
Fuel, gas and water, 1,317 58
Miscellaneous, car fares, etc., 591 69
Signalling apparatus, repairs and supplies therefor, . . 3,419 93
Underground wires, .......... 4,668 55
Printing, stationerj-, etc., 262 89
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Ij^DEX.
IN-DEX.
A.
PAGE
Accidents 16.82,83
persons killed or injured in streets, parks and squares . . 82, 83
number of, reported 32
Ambulance service ......... 38
Arrests 14,27,31.59,60-75,76,77
age and sex of 76
comparative statement of ...... . 77
for offenses against chastity, morality, etc. ... 27, 66, 75
for drunkenness 14, 29, 69
foreigners 28, 60-75
insane persons ......... 29, 32
minors 28, 60-76
nativity of ......... . 28
nonresidents 14, 28, 60-75
number of, by div-isions ........ 59
number of, punjshed by fine ....... 29
summoned by court 28, 60-75
total number of ........ . 27
\-ioIation of city ordinances . ■ . . . . . . 28, 68
on warrants 28, 60-75
without warrants 28, 60-75
Auctioneers 78
Automobiles 15, 37, 82, 83
accidents due to . • 16, 82, 83
cared for 32
laws 15
police 37, 39
public 39
prosecutions . . ^ 15
B.
Benefits and pensions 46
Bertillon sj-stem 30
Bridges, defective 32
Buildings 32
dangerous, reported 32
found open and made secure ....... 32
Bureau of Criminal Investigation 30
c.
Carriages, public .......... 39, 78
articles left in ........ . 40
automobile .......... 37
number licensed 40, 78
90 DfDEX.
PAGE
Cases inre=tigated 31, 32, 36
Cesspools, defecti^-e, reported 32
Children 32
aboBdoned, cared for 32
lost restored .......... 32
Chimnej-s, dangerous, reported ....... 32
City ordinances, arrests for \-iolation of 28, 68
Claims, inspector of ........ . 33
Coal holes, defective 32
Collective musicians 43, 78
Commissioners, police 18
Commitments .......... 29, 34
Complaints 42, 56, 78
against police ofEcera ........ 56, 57
against miscellaneous licenses ....... 42, 78
Courts 29. 31. 34
fines imposed by ........ . 29
number of days' attendance at, by offirers . . 29. 31. 34
number of persons summoned by ..... . 28
Criminal Investigation, Bureau of 30
arrests 31
finger-print sj-stem 30 \
photographs 30 J
records ........... 30
rogues' gallery ......... 30
Criminal work .......... 77
comparative statement of ...... . 77
D.
Dangerous weapons ......... 45
Dead bodies, cared for ......... 32
Dead bodies, recovered ......... 30
Deaths 31
by accident, suicide, etc. ....... 31 ^
of police officers 27, 50
Department, police 26
Detectives, private 78
Distribution of force 27, 48
Disturbances suppressed ........ 32, 36
Dogs 33, 78, 79
amotint received for licenses for 78, 80
damage done by 33, 80
number licensed 78, 79
Drains and vaults, defective reported 32
Drivers, hack or cab 40, 78
Drowning, persons rescued from ....... 32, 36
Drunkenness 14, 29, 34, 69
arrests for. per day 29
decrease in number of arrests for ..... . 29
nonresidents arrested for 14, 29
total number of arrests for 14, 69
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E.
PAGE
Employees of the Department 26, 48, 49
Events, special .......... 33
Expenditures 46, 80, 81
Extra duties performed by officers 31, 32
F.
Fences, defective, reported 32
Financial ........... 46
expenditures 47, 80
house of detention SO
pensions ......... 46, 80
signal service 47, 80, 81
receipts 47, 78, SO
miscellaneous license fees 47, 78, SO
Fines 13, 29, 77
average amount of . . . . . . 29, 77
amount of ......... . 77
number punished by . . . . . . . . 13, 29
Finger-print system ......... 30
Fire alarms ........... 32, 36
defective, reported .......... 32
number given ......... 32
number on water front attended 36
Fires 32, 36
extinguished 32, 36
on water front extinguished without alarm .... 36
Foreigners, number arrested 28, 60-75
Fugitives from justice 31
G.
Gaming, illegal 12, 70 i
Gas pipes, defective, reported 32 }
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Hackney carriages 39, 78
Hand carts ' . . . 78
Harbor service, special duties performed ...... 35
"Ferret" in commission ........ 36
Horses 36,58
bought, sold, etc 36
distribution of gg
number in scrvnce 36, 58
House of detention 34, 80
House of ill-fame, keeping 34
Hydrants, defective, reported 32
92 INDEX.
T.
PAGE
Imprisonment 13, 29, 77
persons sentenced to . . . . , , . . 13, 29
total years of 13, 29, 77
Income 47.78,80.
Inquests held .......... 31
Insane persons taken in charge 29, 32
Inspector of claims .....,,.. 33
cases investigated 34
Intoxicated persons assisted 32
Itinerant musicians 43, 78
J.
Junk collectors ......-,.. 78
Junk shop keepers ......... 78
Jur}' lists, police work on 15
L.
Lamps, defective, reported ....-,.. 32
Licenses, miscellaneous . . . . . - , , . 42, 78
Listing male residents ........ 41, 84, 85
certificates refused .....-,.. 41
expenses of .•. . . . . . ■ . .41,80
number of male residents listed 41,84
supplementary list of male residents 41,85
women voters verified 41, 86
number of policemen employed in . . , . , . 42
Loans, small .....,,... 46, 78
Lodgers at station bouses ........ 29
Lodging houses, public .....,,.. 44
applications for licenses ....,,.. 44
authority to license ........ 44
location of ......-., . 44, 45
number of persons lodged in 44, 45
Lost, abandoned and stolen property 32, 78, 80
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Medical examiners' assistants 31
inquests attended 31
causes of death ......... 31
cases on which inquests were held ...... 31
Minors, number arrested 28, 60-75
Miscellaneous business 32
Miscellaneous licenses ......... 42, 78
complaints investigated ........ 42, 78
number issued 42, 78
number transferred ........ 42, 78
number cancelled and revoked ...... 42, 78
amount of fees collected for . . . ... 42, 78
Missing persona 32
number reported 32
number found ......... 32
INDEX.
PACE
Muddans, itinerant 43, 78
appIicaUona for licenses 43
instruments examined ........ 43
instnimenta condemned ........ 43 •
iastrumenta passed ........ 43
Musjcianj, coUectire 43, 78
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Nativity of persons arrested 28
Nonresidenta, number arrested 14, 28, 60-75
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Offences . 13, 27. 60-75. 77
against the laws 13
against the person 27, 60, 75
against property, with violence 27, 62, 75
against property, without violence 27, 62, 75
against property, malicious 64, 75
comparative statement of ...... . 77
forgery and against currency . . . . . . 27, 64, 75
against h'cense laws 27, 64, 75
against chastity, morality, etc. 27, 66, 75
miscellaneous ........ 27, 67, 75
recapitulation ......... 75
P.
Parki, pubUc 82, 83
accidents reported in . . . . " . . . . 82, 83
Pawiibrokers 78
Pensions and benefits ......... 46
estimates for pensions ........ 46
number of persons on rolls ....... 46
payments on account of 46, 80
Police 42
lailroad .......... 42
special ' 42
Police charitable fund, number of beneficiaries .... 46
Police department ......... 26
free from politics ......... 5
assaults on citizens 7
corruption ........... 7
social evil 10
bquor laws .......... H
Samblihg 12
law 12
tharges against 16
trial boards 17
commissioticfa ......... 18
how constituted ......... 26
distribution of 27, 48, 49
91 INDEX.
PAGE
Police department — andixutd
officers appointed ......... 27
date appointed ........ 53
complaints against ........ 56
died 27.50
discharged 27, 54
injured 27
promoted 27, 52
resigned 27, 54
retired 27.51
absent sick ......... 55
arrests by ........ . 27
detaiJed, special erents ....... 33
work of 27
horses in use in ........ . 36, 58
vehicles in use in ....... . 37, 38, 39
Police Relief Association, inrested funa of .... . 46
Police oigual service 26, *4, 47. 4&, SO, 81
cost of maintenance ....... 47, SO, 81
pajinents .......... 81
signal boxes .......... 34
miscellaneous work 35
property of 35
Prisoners, nativity of ........ . 28
Private detectives ......... 78
Pro.nerty 29,-32,77,78,80
lost, abandoned and ^olen .32, 78, 80
fecovcred 29, 31, 36, 77
sale of condemned 47, 78, SO
stolen in city 29, 77
taken from prisoneii and lodgers 29
Public carriages .......... 39
Public lodging-bouses ..,.,.... 44, 78
R.
Railroad police 42
Receipts 47, 78
Registration (see Listing ........ 41
Rogues' gallery .......... 30, 31
s.
Second-hand articles 78
Sewers, defective, reported 32
Sick and injured persons ssasted ...... 29, 32, 36
Sickness, absence on acoomnt of ...... . 55
Signal service, police 2«, *4, 47, 49, SO. SI
Small loan licenses ' . 46, 78
Special events .......... 33
Special police 42
Station houses .......... 29
lodgers at ......... . 29
witnesses detained at ....... . 29
Stolen property, value of 29,31,77
Street railways, conductcss and motormen licensed .... 78
rS'DEX. 95
PAGE
Streets 32, 82. 83
accidents reported in ....... . 82, 83
defective, reported ......... 32
traffic and rules 21
T.
Teams 32
stray, put up 32
Trees, defective 32
V,
Vehicles 37
ambulances 38
automobiles .......... 37
in use in police department 39
public carriages ......... 39
wagons 40, 78, 79
Vessels 36
w.
Wagons 40, 78, 79
number licensed by divisions 79
total number licensed 40, 78, 79
Water pipes, defective, reported ....... 32
Water running to waste reported ....... 32
Weapons, diingerous ......... 45
Wires and poles, defective, reported ...... 32
Witnesses 29, 31, 32, 34, 77
number of days' attendance at court by officers as . . . 31, 77
fees earned by ofEcers as ....... 29, 77
number of, detained at station houses 29, 32
Women committed to House of Detention 34
Women voters verified 41, 86
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