Law and Order
- Created by: Mustafa Ali
- Created on: 24-06-14 09:58
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- Law and Order
- Types of crime
- Bank Robberies.
- Cattle Rustling.
- Claim Jumping.
- Miners would be robbed of their valuable claims.
- Horse Stealing.
- Fence Cutting.
- Barons wanted to control access to the water by fencing it off but the small ranchers resisted this.
- Racial Attacks.
- The Chinese who settled after building the railroads were victims of this.
- Shootings.
- Stagecoach Robbery.
- Stagecoaches were stopped and robbed of money.
- Train Robbery.
- Reasons for Crime
- Who's in charge?
- No one to stop violence.
- Wild young men.
- Ethnic divisions.
- Old grudges.
- Such a big country .
- Difficult to enforce law everywhere.
- Thirst for wealth.
- "A man's got to do hat a man's got to do"
- West dominated by a code of honour - "Code of the West." If you killed someone in self-defence you had not broken the law
- Who's in charge?
- How the US government attempted to solve crime
- The Pinkerton Detective Agency
- Hired by stagecoach and rail road companies to provide protection
- Town Marshals and their deputies (assistants)
- Main job to maintain law and order. Also responsible for maintaining the town jail and licensing saloons.
- Sheriffs
- Elected by the people of the county for two years. Responsible for looking after the town jail and for selling the property of anyone who failed to pay local taxes.
- The Texas Rangers.
- Fought Indians, They were a mounted police force.
- Judges
- Appointed by the US President. Three judges supervise each state.
- US Marshals
- The Pinkerton Detective Agency
- Role of vigilantes
- Lynching criminals
- Warning criminals
- "The remedy for the existing evils is greater than he evils
- Billy the Kid
- Top gunfighter during the Lincoln County War
- Sentenced to death
- Types of crime
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