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What's the Infraction?
Between 18 75 and 19 hundred, nearly a million workers were jailed for public order offenses in just chicago. A lot of cities also made use of what were called tramp acts. These criminalized traveling without having av means of support. Those folks were increasingly able to call on the police when they felt uncomfortable or afraid. The very first alarm boxes were set up in major cities during this period of time.