Policing
Worst time for attitudes towards police is 1877-1888/89
Edmund Henderson (1870-1886)
Relaxed police discipline - grow beards, amount of military drill
1877 scandal - ‘Trial of the Detectives’- convinces people to commit crimes -Thomas Titley - pretended to be someone else
Series of bombs going off in 1884 & 1885 damaging Houses of Parliament
Sir Charles Warren (1886-1888)
Too strict -like army
Looked like criticising government
Rubbed off Goulston Graffiti
Walking the Beat
Carried: truncheons, handcuffs, lantern, and wore helmet
9/8 hour shifts
Very predictable - criminals could plan crime around the Beat
Difficulties
Issues | Difficulties it caused | What did police do? |
Alcohol/pubs | more vulnerable victims worsened arguments/abuse SO, more dangerous | Licensing restrictions illegal to serve drinks to drunk people no gambling & illegal boxing |
Gangs | Racketeering - threating so they pay for ‘protection’ more likely to pay than to go to police illegal boxing - Bessarabians | lack of evidence mainly groups of young men which are worsened by media |
Prostitution | increased violence towards women led to involvement of crime | Brothels made illegal by 1885 but very little otherwise |
Violent demonstrations and attacks on Jews | won’t go to police if victim antisemitism - worsened by media policed own problems protests | tried to speak Yiddish - not affective |