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Show Chief of Police Releases Statistics For Incidents Leading to Arrests A detailed report of activities of the Cedar City police department, depart-ment, released this "week by Chief Tony Lambert, reveals some most Interesting facts about crime in Cedar City including the type of crimes and the age groups that are committing various var-ious offenses. Chief Lambert's report indicates indi-cates that during the past year the police department has handled hand-led 614 cases, not Including traffic traf-fic cases which are many and varied. In addition to these cases, of course, the police officers spend many hours on regular routine business, patrolling night and day. Check on Sleepers Of the 614 coses 258 dealt with "investigation of sleepers," a phase that sounds unimportant which is vitally important to law enforcement. People traveling about the country, usually with no means of support, are the type that are involved in requests for free sleeping accommodations (in the Jail. Naturally this type of person could and often is in-'volved in-'volved in mny types of crime from petty to major offenses. Therefore, the police force investigates inves-tigates each individual listed as a sleeper, and frequently wanted person are apprehended in this way. In this category are listed people peo-ple from 15 years of age, up, with 182 of 258 cases falling in the age group 26 years of age or older. Arrests for Drinking The Chief's report shows that 105 arrests were made for drunkenness, drunk-enness, and It is interesting to note that 8 of these were people 26 years of age or older, and that only seven of them were under 21 years of age. Another interesting category is the drunken driving cases, with the department handling 25 such cases, with all but five of them involving people 26 years of age or over. It is generally assumed that teenagers would be the age group that would be Involved In disturbing dis-turbing the peace Incidence, but the police report does not bear this out. In fact of 18 arrests made on this charge, 14 of them involved people in the older group. Teenager Incidents The report does reveal, however, how-ever, that youngsters 15, 16, 17 and 18 years of age, give the police po-lice the most trouble. Charges placed against this age group include 20 against 15 year olds, 31 against the 16 year age group, 32 against the 17 year group, and 25 against those 18 years of age. It was encouraging to note, however, how-ever, that in all these cases only three were for drunkenness. There were seven cases of Dyer Act charges, transporting stolen automobiles across state lines; four car theft cases, and one robbery, rob-bery, all serious charges. Fifteen of the cases, dealt with youngsters young-sters of that age running away from home. Three were charged with reckless driving, all of them 18 years of age; three with disturbing dis-turbing the peace, ond six with destroying property. Age Brackets All but one of the Dyer Act charges involved youngsters 14 to 17 years of age, with the other case involving one man over 26 years of age. The Dyer Act charges were against 17 year old youths, and one against a 16 year old. The report shows that 45 cases involved children nine to 14 years of age, including the two 14 year olds apprehended on Dyer Act charges. Of the 45 cases, 14 of them involved malicious mischief, mis-chief, but 10 of them were for burglary, which U a very serious offense for children of that age, and 13 of them were for petit larceny, which in numerous cases is almost as bad as burglary. No man has as good a neighbor neigh-bor as he thinks his neighbor has. |
