Although there have been other police initiatives thus far, such as Egypt being considered as the first known civilization and police state, Hammarabi’s Code of Laws, and the argument that the captured Nubian slaves of Mesopotamia were the actual first police force, the fact that Augustus took his desire to such lengths makes it look like his vision is realized in the policing of modern-times.

Rome seemed to have suffered much of the same crime and corruption 2500 years ago that we all suffer today. There is corruption from higher ranking officials, revolts by the lower class, threat of assassination of officials and theft. What was a ruler to do?

After Rome fell, it seems that there was a great time of lawlessness where people just couldn’t pull themselves together enough to have a system of law. I noticed that in the Middle ages you have either no system or the “honorary” system, which as many of us know, does not always work. In America in the colonial times, this was also what we started to do and this turned into a silent and unseen police force that most people didn’t even know existed.

Along with creating a police force, Caesar also made himself a little fire department to take care of all of those crazy Roman bonfires that got out of hand. He developed the precinct system, even though his idea of slaves didn’t work out very well. I guess he should have realized that to force people to fight fires when they aren’t really into it just isn’t going to work.

population of more than 1,000,000. This measure greatly reduced the crime

But what about all those folks that were not in the military? What did every one else do? In “Legacy and Reform”, I guess Caesar had them build streets and buildings and the like. I also found out that some of the great things that Caesar has done are “up for interpretation”. I guess the article believes that some historians don’t actuall

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