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MAJ. E. W. BROWN,
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who praised crime in
vestigators.
LESLIE C. GARNETT,
United States attorney,
who said he had no
quarrel iclth findings.
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Lower Court
JAMES ALLEN NOLAN,
Managing director of the
Criminal Justice Asso
/2t7 ciation.
JAMES M. HEPBRON,
Consultant, who aided rn
preparation of report.
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Police Police Grand District Otskrict Convictions
Department Court Jurij Attorney Court
Crime
(Continued From First Page.)
quarrel with it. Necessarily, there
may be various analyses made and dif
ferent conclusions drawn from the sta
tistics.
Bail Bondsmen's Ratios.
“One of the situations referred to
therein which has recently received
very careful consideration from the
office is that pertaining to bail bonds.
I agree that some fair basis might be
established for determining the ratio
between the liability of bondsmen and
their unmortgaged assets. Of course,
the Police Court has a rule that no
bondsman can write bonds In excess
of twice the value of such assets. The
District Court has no such rule on the
subject, but the judges are fully ad
vised of the current situation of the
bondsmen. The Department of Jus
tice has recently made a study of the
condition here, and, under the date
of April 11, 1937, wrote me as follows:
“ 'As to the comparative risk in
volved in accepting security in crim
inal bonds in the District of Columbia,
a recent investigation made in this
division has disclosed the following
facts which may be of value to you in
determining the proper limitations and
fixing your regulations to govern the
taking of such bonds.
“ 'From January 1, 1935, to February
28, 1937, bonds were accepted in your
district in 1,565 criminal oases. These
bonds ranged in face value from $100
to $10,000, and aggregated a total band
risk of $1,480,500. This total, however,
did not exist in its entirety at any one
time, but is the total over this period.
The general average of each bond was
$947.60,
One $10,000 Bond Forfeit.
“ 'Only one bond has been forfeited
during this period. This bond was
for the sum of $10,000 (case No.
54,254). The full amount of this for
feiture has been reported collected.
" ‘Up to the date of February 28,
1937, 1,321 of these cases were re
ported terminated, leaving 244 then
pending.’
“Only one bond has been forfeited
since I have been District attorney
and not collected. The assets of this
bondsman are now tied up and the
matter is under consideration by the
Department of Justice.”
Maj. Brown expressed regret that
he had been unable to attend the
annual meeting of the association yes
terday, but said he knew all about
the report of the association.
Help of Association Mentioned.
“I have worked with them and they
with us,” he said. “They can help us
all along the line. They follow through
from the report of a crime to its dis
position, even to the extent of a re
port on probation.
“I see no reason why such a fair
and impartial group cannot be of great
help to law enforcement here. Such
a commission has worked successfully
in Baltimore and there is no reason
why it won't work here in Washing
ton.”
The invitations to Maj. Brown and
Garnett to address the association will
be sent promptly, it was Indicated last
night at the group's annual meeting
in the Willard Hotel.
Already “excellent co-operation" has
been offered the association by all
public officials engaged in the adminis
tration of criminal justice, it was
explained in the annual report, and by
James M. Hepbron of Baltimore, con
sultant to the Washington association.
Some Reforms Already.
Hepbron, who is director of the
Baltimore Criminal Justice Association
and for some time was acting director
here, emphasized that officials here
not only have co-operated in the In
vestigation of the past year, but al
ready, “without fanfare of publicity,”
have put into effect some reforms,
especially attempting to eliminate the
“technical arrest.” He reviewed the
annual report and called on the public
to back up enforcement officials in
efforts to stamp out crime.
The suggestion that law enforce
ment officials be invited to address a
meeting of the association soon was
one of several informal proposals made
at the annual meeting yesterday. It
came from Clarence Phelps Dodge,
president of the Community Chest.
Hepbron hastened to say Maj. Brown
already had attended many meetings
of the association, and no doubt would
be glad to come soon. Eugene Meyer,
president of the association, an
nounced at the close of the session
that arrangements would be made to
have the officials invited.
Charts and Tables Supplied.
The report contained many charts
and tables of figures, backing up the
general charge that machinery for
law enforcement here should be made
more effective and efficient.
The low percentage of conviction
for all serious crimes was depicted in
a big chart, showing that out of 6,818
reported felonies in 1936 there were
685 convictions.
Summarizing the results of prose
cution for major crimes here during
1936, Nolan said the figures showed
convictions were obtained In approxi
mately one out of three murders, one
out of five aggravated assaults, one
out of 10 robberies, one out of 12
burglaries and one out of 17 grand
larcenies. The ratios are to reported
offenses and not to actual arrests.
While expressing appreciation for
co-operation of enforcement officials
In the inquiry, Nolan disclosed some
unfavorable factors all down the line—
police, bail bonds, United States at
torney’s office, institutions and prisons.
"The District has far more serious
crime than is healthy for any com
munity,” he declared. “That the
machinery for administering criminal
justice can and should be made more
effective and efficient Is all too ap
parent.”
Taking up prosecutions, the report
gave considerable attention to the
high percentage of cases nolle
pressed, which In one Instance ran as
high as 58.8 per cent of "not guilty”
pleas in Indicted oases.
Two specific Improvements already
have been made In laa’ enforcement
quarters here as a result of the asso
ciation's action, Nolan reported. Maj.
Brown, has agreed that the practice
of so-called “Willie Pye" arreeta, or
“technical arrests/' wae “not good,”
and has reassigned additional officers
to the Detective Bureau to help elimi
nate it. These ‘•technical" charges
were t hose not pressed against prison
ers, who were tried on only a lew of
the other charges brought.
Also agreeing that the practice
should be eliminated, United States
Attorney Garnett, Nolan said,' had
determined to present to the grand
jury “every case in which there was
evidence that the defendant had com
mitted the offense."
Following conferences on this with
police and the United States attorney,
Nolan reported that out of 691 indict
ments from September 1 to December
30, 175 true bills were presented in 39
cases. This indicates an average of
4.5 indictments per case in 39 cases,
wherein over a period of years there
were only two cases in which persons
were Indicted for as many as five
offenses.
10 Specific Facts Outlined.
Ten specific facts were outlined as
depicting serious crime in the Dis
trict in 1936.
Introducing these, the report de
clared, ‘‘It is well to remember that it
is a provable fact that crime in a
given city can be reduced in some
what the same ratio that efficiency in
the administration of criminal Justice
is increased.”
The 10 summarised points were as
follows:
“1. 6,818 felonies or serious crimes
of the type carried in the association’s
tables were reported to the police in
1936.
"2. Arrests were actually made in
2,126 cases, or in 31.2 per cent of
the cases.
“3. Three hundred and forty-two
of these arrests, or 16.1 per cent, were
disposed of in Juvenile Court.
‘‘4. One hundred and eighty-seven,
or 8.8 per cent, were convicted in
Police Court, while 122, or 5.7 per
cent, were dismissed In Police Court.
“5. The records in Police Court
also show that 111, or 5.2 per cent,
were nolle prossed, while no papers
were issued in 53 cases, or 2.5 per
cent, making a total of 286, or 13.6
per cent, of the cases actually termin
ated i>y discharge in the Police Court.
”6. The grand Jury returned in
dictments in 1,193 cases, or 92 per
cent, of the cases presented to it,
while 104, or 8 per cent, were ignored.
“7. Of the 1,193 cases indicted,
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100. or 84 per cent, were nolle
pressed; 31, or 2 6 per cent, were
found not guilty; 685, or 57.3 per cent,
wer found guilty, while 377, or 31.5
per cent, were pending trial.
"8. Of the 716 cases actually tried.
685, or 95.6 per cent, were found
guilty.
“9. Of the cases in which convic
tions were secured, 95, or 14 per cent,
were granted probation.
“10. Of the 6,818 cases of serious
crime reported, the police cleared
their cases as follows;
“Actual arrests_ 2,126 31.2%
“Technical arrests_ 734 10.7%
“Cleared because com
plainant did not care
to prosecute_ 948 13.9%
3,808 55.8%
Bonds Discussed.
The committee on courts and prose
cutions, headed by Frank F. Nesbit,
in its part of the report took up the
bail bond situation, with figures on
nine professional bondsmen who were
designated not by name, but by let
ters running from “A” to "I.” Two
« ^ ^ . k ■ « . a
tables were submitted showing the
assets of these men, and the bonds
they had written, indicating the ratio
of bonds to assets.
• Only two of the nine professional
bondsmen on January 31 of this year,
the report showed, “had full coverage
on the bonds pledged. The seven
others had written over the assessed
value of their property pledged, less
the Incumbrances.
Studying pleas of "not guilty,” the
association staff took up all cases
which had originated and been tried
by the courts between January 1,
1936, and June 30, 1936. There was
a total of 154 pleas of not guilty
entered, in which trial was had and
93, or 60,4 per cent, were found
guilty, while 61, or 39.6 py cent, were
found not guilty.
For the same period, the associa
tion studied the Indicted cases and
found a total of 374 not guilty pleas
were entered. Of this number, 220,
or 58.2 per cent, of the not guilty
pleas resulted in entries of nolle
prosequi.
Taking up the time involved for
prosecutions, the association found
that the average length of time for
a case to be presented to the grand
jury and tried in the courts was from
seven to eight weeks, but that 340
out of a total of 800 cases, or *43.5
per cent, were tried within five weeks.
The Committee on Institutions and
Prisons, Marcy L. Sperry, chairman,
branded the jail here as “anti
quated” and said there had been “con
siderable discussion about the time in
volved between arrest and final dispo
sition of cases.” Prior to 1936, it
was pointed out; the District Court was
closed, except for pleas of guilty, dur
ing the Summer, and it was believed
that this accounted for the high popu
lation of the jail. The committee in
dicated it would study particularly the
"elapsed time from the arrest to the
trial of cases” from the standpoint of
"detention.”
Officers Are Chosen.
Mr. Meyer was re-elected president
of the association for the next year.
Other officers were named as follows:
Mr. Remon, first vice president; Miss
Ella C. Werner, second vice president;
Joseph E. Rice, secretary, and Vincent
Saccardi. treasurer. The report of the
Nominating Committee was presented
by Newbold Noyes.
The board of directors for the com
ing fiscal year was announced as fol
lows :
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