TABLE NUMBER XV

Showing Total Number of Charges of Arrested Negroes Brought to Stations No. 1 and No. 2 from December 1, 1914 to June 30, 1915 and December 1, 1916 to June 30, 1917, and also the percentage of Increase during the last Period.

CHARGES 1914-1915
Male  Female  Total 		1916-1917
Male  Female  Total 		% of Inc.
1917
PETTY OFFENCES
Suspicious Persons 390 77 467 668 111 779 67
Disorderly Conduct 353 74 427 493 106 599 41
Drunkenness 240 42 282 869 40 909 222
Keeping Disorderly Houses 16 22 38 36 55 91 140
Visiting Disorderly Houses 92 29 121 217 76 293 142
Common Prostitute 0 58 58 0 54 54 —7
Violating City Ordinances 85 0 85 143 0 143 68
Keeping Gambling Houses 5 5 0 0 0 0
Visiting Gambling Houses 31 0 31 0 0 0
Vagrancy 75 9 84 93 0 93 11
Other non-Court Charges 83 0 83 37 0 37
TOTAL 1370 311 1681 2556 442 2998
MAJOR OFFENCES
Larceny 20 1 21 20 3 23
Assault & Battery 12 0 12 13 0 13
Highway Robbery 3 0 3 4 0 4
Entering Buildings 20 0 20 7 0 7
Felonious Cutting & Felonious Shooting 7 1 8 17 2 19
Murder turned over to Coroner 12 0 12 5 1 6
Assault and Battery with attempt to Commit Rape 5 0 5 3 0 3
Concealed Weapons & Point. Firearms 2 1 3 12 0 12
Other Court Charges 9 0 9 6 1 7
TOTAL 90 3 93 87 7 94
GRAND TOTAL 1460 314 1774 2643 449 3092

The foregoing tables and figures reveal many features which are extremely interesting. The first thing that strikes us is the disproportionate increase in petty arrests over the increase in court charges or graver crimes. From the figures obtained it appears that although the number of arrests on charges of suspicion, drunkenness, disorderly conduct and similar petty charges have increased from approximately forty percent to over two hundred percent; the graver crimes, as a whole, have remained stable in spite of the increase in population, while in some of the crimes which are usually accredited to Negroes, we find a marked decline. The percentage of grave charges compared to the total number of arrests, has decreased from 5% in 1914-15 to 3% in 1916-17. Thus, we find only two more larcenies in 1916-17 than in 1914-15; a considerable decline in charges for entering buildings and two charges less of rape.