1857……….2,592 1859……….2,636 1860……….2,207 1861……….2,408 1868……….2,927 1870……….2,876 1871……….2,936
It often happens that youthful criminals are arrested who are not imprisoned. The reports of the Board of Police will give us other indications that, even here, juvenile crime has at length been diminished in its sources.
ARRESTS.
The arrests of pickpockets run thus since 1861, the limit of returns accessible:—
1861…………466 1862…………300 1865…………275 1867…………345 1868…………348 1869…………303 1870…………274 1871…………313
In ten years a reduction of 153 in the arrests of pickpockets.
In petty larceny the returns stand thus in brief:—
1862……….4,107 1865……….5,240 1867……….5,269 1870……….4,909 1871……….3,912
A decrease in nine years of 195.
Arrests of girls alone, under twenty:—