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The Origins of Policing -- from the Middle Ages to the First World War

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Hue and Cry of the Hundred

Sothis was the rough sort of customary practice in anglo saxon, england, in the early middle ages. If there was an attack or a robbery or kidnapping, some one should raise an alarm and all the people of the hundred were expected to respond. They could pursue offenders, make arrests,. And they also could hold trials. So whether they caught an outside attacker or bandit, or if some one within the community committed a crime, a rape, a murder, abuse, they could be jailed and put on trial. But this raisin of a hue and cry or alarm, was really critical, both to catching malefactors like criminals, and also to respond to

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