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The streets in London were dark and had a shortage of good quality artificial light. [1] It had been recognized for centuries that the coming of darkness to the unlit streets of a town brought a heightened threat of danger, and that the night provided cover to the disorderly and immoral, and to those bent on robbery or burglary or who in other ways threatened physical harm to people in the ...
Nightwalker statutes were English statutes, before modern policing, allowing or requiring night watchmen to arrest those found on the streets after sunset and hold them until morning. [1]
A night-watchman state, also referred to as a minimal state or minarchy, whose proponents are known as minarchists, is a model of a state that is limited and minimal, whose functions depend on libertarian theory.
Hanging of Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie, August 24, 1851. The 1851 Committee of Vigilance was inaugurated on June 9 with the promulgation of a written doctrine declaring its aims [4] and hanged John Jenkins of Sydney, Australia, on June 10 after he was convicted of stealing a safe from an office in a trial organized by the committee: grand larceny was punishable by death under ...
The nighttime shift worked by a security guard (night watchman) Watchman (law enforcement), organized groups of men to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement; One of the watches stood by sailors who are watchkeeping
Tensions with the Black community also led to a third Brixton riot in 1995, arising from a large protest outside Brixton police station over the death of a local man in police custody - three police officers were injured and a two-mile exclusion zone was set up around Brixton. Later reports showed that the male in custody died of heart failure ...
The Act was the enabling legislation for what is often considered to be the first modern police force, the "bobbies" or "peelers" (after Peel), which later served as the model for modern urban policing throughout Britain.
Watchman (law enforcement) Nightwatchman (cricket), a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play "Nightwatchman", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from Hard Promises; The Nightwatchman, or Tom Morello, a musician