Question 1:
Describe law and order in London in the late nineteenth centaury.
Law order in the centaury was only a part of London’s problems. London main problem was it self and it was mainly the Whitechapel area due to it being a dark and stingy place, especially at night where prostitution happened theft. Street fights and many more. Arthur Morrison sums up the area of Whitechapel of being “an evil plexus of slums that hide human creeping things, where filthy men and women live on penn’orths of gin, where collars and clean shirts are decencies unknown, where every citizen wears a black eye and none ever combs his hair”. London also had the problem of protest groups (such as the chartists, the laddits, and anti cam law league) this was a growing problem because most protests ended up in bloody riots. Every time this happened the army was caused out but sometimes it was too late.
The late 19th centaury also had a huge range of development of the police. The development of the police went through up’s and down but gradually got there. The thirst kind of police force was the night watchmen. The night watchmen were employed by Hennery Moore who basically had the job of walking up and down making shore the streets were calm and if any crime was committed to see that person was caught. But the night watchmen had there illustrations and problems many of them weren’t in no fit state work often drunk they couldn’t watch the streets and if an major riot broke out they couldn’t’ prevent it or stop it but after the night watchmen proved to the government that a regular police force should be set up. Once the government realised something had to be done they set up the met (metropolitan police force) in 1829 and had 3,200 men and along with 17 diversions 4inspectors and 144 constables. The met covered a 7 mile area from the centre of London. Also the met were later known as Bobbies or peelers. They to like the night watchmen wore a uniform that included dark blue long coats a tall hat, also the met were unarmed except a truncheon (this was a deterrent and protection against dangerous criminals). Then in 1870 the tall hat was replaced by a helmet. These were similar to that warn by the Prussian army.
