Law and order in London in the late nineteenth century

Law and order in London in the late nineteenth century

The late 19th century was an unusual time for the police in London. On one hand their methods and techniques has improved on the whole, but on the other hand results were still not seen results and the majority of the middle class still didn't like the police.

The police's main job at the time was crime prevention and keeping law and order. Their method of doing that was basically just being on the street with the assumption that the criminal would rather not commit a crime when there was a policeman around. This method was quite effective and helped to prevent petty theft (not very serious crimes) which made up most of all recorded crime. Violent crimes made up a very small percentage of the total statistics and murder was fairly rare.

Towards the end of the 19th century the police in London had made more effort into investigating crime as well as preventing it. They did it because criminals had the idea that if they didn't get caught while committing the crime, they won't get caught at all. We can see evidence of this by the fact that more detectives were hired, and the CID (criminal investigation department) was formed.

Despite these efforts, there were still no results seen and a lot of work still had to be done. In London there were only 13,319 policemen for over ...

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