The Baltimore Police Department?s arrests that didn?t result in charges dropped 28.7 percent in 2006, compared with the previous year, according to data released Wednesday.

In 2006, officers arrested 19,152 adults who were later released from Baltimore?s Central Booking and Intake Facility without charges, a decrease from the 26,877 such arrests in 2005, according to the police statistical report based on Central Booking data. The total number of adult arrests last year was 89,273, compared to 98,083 in 2005 ? a decline of 9 percent, the report says.