LAWS 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Royal Irish Constabulary, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Dublin Metropolitan Police
5 Jan 2017
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Lecture 7: policing vice and public order from the rebellion to the red scare. Vice/public order offences as a major components of canadian crime in the second half of the nineteenth century: mainly drunken/disorderly activity. Municipalities providing policing: provision of policing. Large cities have their own police forces. Smaller rural cities and towns are normally run by opp/rcmp. What are we arguing: municipal police provided that majority/core of policing in the 19th century, an awareness that some people had a political beef with the state contributed a good bit to. Pre-modern law enforcement: did not have official police force, therefore they had an informal and short term volunteer service to stop crime in the act. Modern law enforcement: a lot of thinkers begin to get keen on police. Looked at police as an activity that involves keeping the affairs of your city up to snuff. No crime or decease will bring your city down: british:
