1. Describe Law and Order in London in the Late 19th Century
... London in the late nineteenth century At the start of the nineteenth century the enforcement of law and order was the same in England has it had been in the Middle Ages. The main people in charge of law and order were the Justice of Peace who were chosen by the King. "Bow Street Runners" were appointed in London and the Thames ... in their infancy. Almost all the methods of tackling and solving crimes that we now take for granted were unknown. The police had learnt the value of footprints in the early part of the nineteenth century, but since then little progress had been made. Slowly t...
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