What's Your Neighborhood Pigeon Stool?

In colonial North America, there was a very unregulated market for law enforcement in a lot of ways. constables and night watch officers didn't want to wear badges because they had bad reputations. Rich people tended to pay poor people to take their shifts for them. And this was the first real example of for profit policing. In 1829, back over in England, Sir Robert Peel introduced the bill for improving the police force.