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Describe law and order in the late 19th century
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1. Describe law and order in the late 19th century. The origins of the police force go back to Saxon times. However, the foundations of modern day British police forces were setup in the 19th century. The metropolitan police force was setup in 1828 by Robert Reed. In 1879, methods into dealing with murder cases had changed. These adjustments were made by Charles Vincent, director of Criminal Investigations. Such changes included that "the body must not be moved; nor nothing about it or the room or the place of discovery". Although these changes were revolutionary, they were equally useless. In a time before forensics and even fingerprinting, the only way of catching a murderer is seeing him do it or catch him doing it. As one can see, it would be quite hard to catch a murderer and many murder cases would be left unsolved, the Whitechapel murders included. The police...
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