Commercialized Prostitution in New York CityKneeland, George J. (George Jackson)
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Commercialized Prostitution in New York City
Kneeland, George J. (George Jackson)
Prostitution -- New York (State) -- New York
Comparison of the police reports with those made by our investigators
shows marked differences. For example: in the sixth precinct, the police
report 4 addresses, our agents 18, of which 11 were saloons, etc.; in the
15th, the police found 9, our agents 65, twenty-six of them saloons, etc.;
in the 21st, the police gave 6, our agents 37, seventeen of them saloons,
etc.; in the 22nd, the police report 10, our agents 118, forty-five of
them saloons; in the 26th, 15 and 133 respectively, 61 of the latter being
saloons, etc.; in the 28th, one place is noted by the police, 32 by our
agents, 16 of them saloons, etc.; in the 32nd, none by the police, 25 by
our agents, 23 of them saloons, etc.; in the 33rd precinct none is
reported by police, one by our agents.
In the following table, both sets of reports are arranged side by side in
tabular form, all forms of disorderly resorts being grouped together:
No. disorderly No. disorderly
places reported places found by
by police our investigators
Jan. 1- from Jan. 24-
Precinct Aug. 1, 1912. Nov. 15, 1912.
1 0 2
5 1 3
6 4 18
12 3 3
13 0 7
14 0 4
15 9 65
16 3 8
17 0 3
18 15 73
21 6 37
22 10 118
23 35 132
25 0 19
26 15 133
28 1 32
29 0 14
32 0 25
33 0 1
36 3 36
39 3 37
40 0 4
43 4 34
--- ---
Totals 112 808
Tenement resorts are not included in the preceding data. In the year 1912,
the police reported to the Tenement House Department as vicious 138
separate addresses, in which they had made 153 arrests,--65 of these
arrests in two precincts, the 13th and the 15th; from 247 other sources,
the department learned of 211 addresses: in all, 349 separate places were
reported.[231] Our own agents discovered 1,172 separate disorderly
apartments in tenements at 578 separate addresses between January 24th and
November 15th.
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