Show EVERY DRUNK ARREST COSTS PUBLIC los log angeles calif it costs this city for every person who is arrested a on a drunk charge and the total of costs for arrests made of drunks amounts to a year that was the statement of councilman G vernon bennett benn ett in a resolution he introduced before them the los angeles city council ask t i ing that the state of california be petitioned to contri contribute buie a year towards enforcing the liquor laws and arresting inebriated persons upon the streets alleys and public places place of the city police officials said these costs were computed on the basis of the time consumed by arresting officers stenographers fingerprint experts and filing clerks paper used feeding bathing and housing prisoners and giving them medical attention |