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Are the Pinkertons already out of the Discourse cycle, or would people be interested in an impromptu thread about them, private detecting in the 1850s, and where the myth of the romantic lone wolf private detective came from?
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Modern policing in the US sprang out of county sheriffs (NE US) & slave patrols (SE US). By the 1780s there were both federal law enforcement agencies (US Marshals) & urban police (Philly). In the UK, the 1st police agency was for policing the docks of London in the 1790s
Modern policing in the US sprang out of county sheriffs (NE US) & slave patrols (SE US). By the 1780s there were both federal law enforcement agencies (US Marshals) & urban police (Philly). In the UK, the 1st police agency was for policing the docks of London in the 1790s
But police as we know them today weren't around, because France had done that during the Revolution, and everyone hated the idea of bringing a French innovation into the UK & US--too easily an instrument for government abuse & oppression.
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