NEW SOUTH WALES CRIME STATISTICS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 13

NEW SOUTH WALES CRIME STATISTICS

i e*» *■ decrease m crime in New i honth Wales last year for.the first tima since the Armistice. The number of serious offences in 1922 was, 238' fewer than inthe previous year. The decrease in crime, however, ;was confined to the. S- rMlStr?Cts- • -X' *^ metropoKtan district .there wa»; a m ore pronounced departure from; .path :of nibral rectitude than previously, there! being an increase .of nearly 100-cases" of" crime in.t^'.arear^CaiaMtealing^bu^liryJrand-: Wl'?,. d?»?l'tlo»; w«e-less common; but' on the other hand there wig a sliehfc increase in; cases of attempted murder. nwnslau ? hter, infanticide, 'and arson. The policeman's lot is riot a happy one in .a, place..like Sydney, in;.about a dozen cases policemen were seriously injured, in bringing criininals within the meshes of. the law. The population Within .the goal.'. walls showed a -decrease of ■ 29 per cent^;.dunng._th e yeai..; .Whfle.itt eac-V a-laek:of aoC om m oda*wn has jnterfered with the department's a-specialised-^systeni ; o ftv classification • there are othei: centres s<» morally, upright .'that; the localfcomnmni- -: ties are .clamouring 'to TiSve, the fraols ■ converted schools. : The did 4 Darlinghurst - Gaol,, one- of the cityV grim " landmarks for very: majiy years,.-is now servmg- the-^ore. Useful- purppsesW a ': flrst'cfaM; te<*>< !Ca ] college, inorderto try'" to meet th;eiinsis;tPht 'arid-growmg demand for more-skilled tradesmln."::" ""' ™ ° •;';