Before the Bobbies The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830 | EKB DL

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Before the Bobbies The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830

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This work argues that police reform developed over decades, the work of local authorities motivated more by fears of property crime than radicalism or riots. This book also contends that modern policing emerged long before Scotland Yard. Local and national officials co-operated at many levels to provide policing for London, culminating in Sir Robert Peel's centralized Metropolitan Police in 1829. The early modern British state was thus more responsive to urban problems than previously has been acknowledged.