CRIME IN NEW YORK.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1872

CRIME IN NEW YORK.—

The report of the New York Board of Police Commissioners for the year ending April 5, 1872, states that during that period the number of arrests amounted to 84,514, being an excess of 9,000 above the previous year. The most noticeable increase was among the higher grades of crime, there being 63 cases of homicide against 24 in the previous year, and 57 in the year ending April 5, 1870. The number of burglaries, grand larcenies, and robberies, had diminished in the year 1871–72; but it is a poor consolation to the people of New York to know that, while property is better protected, human life is in greater danger than ever. The character of offenses against the person has also changed, and instead of deadly attacks in the thoroughfares of New York, we now hear continually of unprovoked assaults on respectable passengers in the street cars.