{"id":53219,"date":"2019-12-02T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=53219"},"modified":"2019-12-01T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T16:24:54","slug":"policing-london-the-thief-taker-general-extra-history-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/12\/02\/policing-london-the-thief-taker-general-extra-history-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Policing London &#8211; The Thief-Taker General &#8211; Extra History &#8211; #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XvMQY_y4qx8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 30 Nov 2019<\/p>\n<p>These days we kind of assume that police are a normal part of law and order. But that wasn&#8217;t always the case. In fact, it wasn&#8217;t the case for a lot of human history. So how did we start thinking of police as a natural part of a city? It all starts in London with the Thief-Taker General Jonathan Wilde, a man of two faces. Which one is real: valiant crime fighter or the puppet master of London&#8217;s underbelly? <\/p>\n<p>Join us on Patreon! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_2019-12-02-Policing-London-\u2013-The-Thief-Taker-General-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_2019-12-02-Policing-London-\u2013-The-Thief-Taker-General-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-1-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_2019-12-02-Policing-London-\u2013-The-Thief-Taker-General-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-1-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_2019-12-02-Policing-London-\u2013-The-Thief-Taker-General-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-1-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_2019-12-02-Policing-London-\u2013-The-Thief-Taker-General-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-1-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_2019-12-02-Policing-London-\u2013-The-Thief-Taker-General-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_2019-12-02-Policing-London-\u2013-The-Thief-Taker-General-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-1.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published 30 Nov 2019 These days we kind of assume that police are a normal part of law and order. But that wasn&#8217;t always the case. In fact, it wasn&#8217;t the case for a lot of human history. So how did we start thinking of police as a natural part of a city? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[363,343,350,112],"class_list":["post-53219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-law","tag-corruption","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-london","tag-organizedcrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dQn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53222,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53219\/revisions\/53222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}