TABLE NUMBER XVShowing Total Number of Charges of Arrested Negroes Brought to StationsNo.1 andNo.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.CHARGES1914-1915Male Female Total1916-1917Male Female Total% of Inc.1917PETTY OFFENCESSuspicious Persons3907746766811177967Disorderly Conduct3537442749310659941Drunkenness2404228286940909222Keeping Disorderly Houses162238365591140Visiting Disorderly Houses922912121776293142Common Prostitute0585805454—7Violating City Ordinances85085143014368Keeping Gambling Houses550000Visiting Gambling Houses31031000Vagrancy759849309311Other non-Court Charges8308337037TOTAL1370311168125564422998MAJOR OFFENCESLarceny2012120323Assault & Battery1201213013Highway Robbery303404Entering Buildings20020707Felonious Cutting & Felonious Shooting71817219Murder turned over to Coroner12012516Assault and Battery with attempt to Commit Rape505303Concealed Weapons & Point. Firearms21312012Other Court Charges909617TOTAL9039387794GRAND TOTAL1460314177426434493092
TABLE NUMBER XV
Showing Total Number of Charges of Arrested Negroes Brought to StationsNo.1 andNo.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.
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.