Local History

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The Toronto Police is one of the English-speaking world’s oldest modern municipal police departments; older than, for example, the legendary NYPD which was formed in 1845. In 1835, Toronto retained five fulltime constables-a ratio of about one officer for every 1,850 citizens. In 1837 the constables’ annual pay was fixed at £75 per annum, a

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enraged firemen burned down a visiting circus when its clowns jumped a lineup at a local whorehouse...

Wow.

Just... wow.

Presumably this was before the days of the Scadding Court Police Complaints Service (which is a really cool project run by a downtown community centre-it educates people about their rights and assists them with filing complaints against the police).

H'm. that's interesting.

[comingtogetyou]

I wonder how well it works, given I just wrote

[comingtogetyou]

Fuck I edited this in lj and not my essay. And I still missed a tense. OOh, wait, there's copy-and-paste...

maybe I shoulg go to bed now.