Maine’s Low Crime Statistics
IN Lewiston and Auburn—two contiguous Maine cities of twenty-eight thousand population—there were last year only three arrests for drunkenness to every thousand of the population, against thirty arrests to every thousand in Lowell, a Massachusetts city of similar pursuits and population: and in the three Maine counties of Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford, only one and a half arrests for drunkenness to every thousand of population. Statistics show less crime to-day in Maine than in any other State in the Union. The number of State prison convicts in Maine is one to every thirty-two thousand of population—in New Hampshire, one to nineteen hundred—in Vermont, one to eight hundred—in Massachusetts, one to twenty-two hundred—in Connecticut, one to twenty-one hundred—in New York, one to fourteen hundred.—Christian Statesman.