#history: “Watchmen have existed since earliest recorded times in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally organised professional #policing.”
on 02026-08-12in the #history of #law, villages in #England had to build single-cell jails called “lock-ups”: “a place of temporary confinement for the reception of vagrants, paupers, felons and the like.” #policing
on 02026-08-12#Canada #law permits the use of “reasonable force” for a #citizens-arrest. #policing
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