Describe law and order in the late nineteenth century
Haley Cooper 1st May ‘02 Jack The Ripper Coursework Assignment 1 Describe law and order in London in the late nineteenth century The British police force came to being in the late eighteenth century. ... Their jobs were to patrol the streets to keep them in order and to try to prevent crimes. ... The police had to deal with many different types of crime in the late nineteenth century ranging from minor crimes such as pick pocketing, drunkeness and prostitution to more major crimes such as garrotting, poisoning and murder. ... The different methods that the police used in the late nineteenth century ranged from walking the beat, in which the policeman would have to walk about the streets looking for the crimes to be committed to the newly introduced detective work such as line-ups and photos of the crime scenes because the forensics had not really developed that much yet to be of any help. But a breakthrough happened in the last few years of the nineteenth century when a man was convicted for a murder because the torn paper used for his pistol wabbing was the same paper that was recovered form the victims wound. ... To conclude, law and order in London was in it’s early stages in the late nineteenth century and a lot of the technology we have today to hep us with policing they didn’t have back then so for them it was very limited.