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Policing London - His Majesty King Mob - #4
🕑 Added 2019-12-20 18:30:01 +0000 UTCJohn Fielding, Henry Fielding's brother, took over the Bow Street Runners after his brother's death. He was well known as a man who could identify over 3,000 criminals by voice alone. After all, he was blind. But his real contribution to policing was his organizational skills. He created the first Central Database of stolen goods and suspect descriptions and published papers that included not only London criminals but also descriptions of criminals wanted by other prisons in the country. And while the courts may have loved him, the public was much more skeptical. These were times marked by distrust in authority and having a criminal database seemed like an intrusion on personal liberty. But something needed to change.
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Bradley Ogilvie
First Walpole now Peel. Everyone’s making a cameo in this series
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