Policing

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Policing

• How effective was the Metropolitan Police Force?

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What a cartoonist wanted us to believe

• Look at each part of the cartoon and start to
  build up a picture of the cartoonists message.

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This suggests...
Red cheeks suggest...
That his hat is skew-whiff, perhaps he is
disorganised, scruffy, maybe drunk?
He is drunk?
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The caption at the bottom of the cartoon says
Come on there, its time you were in bed young
woman, anybody with half an eye could see you
were in liquor (i.e. drunk). Irony? Pot calling
kettle black? Who is he talking to?
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Hes talking to a water pump!
Hes definitely drunk!
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The date?
1830
The message?

• He is showing the police to be
• Drunk,
• Inefficient
• A laughing stock

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So how useful is the source?

• Think of the nature of the source. What
  difference does it make that this was a cartoon?
• The date of the source. Think about month and
  year.
• Where it shows. Is this the middle of the city?
  Would police be better there?

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Now it is time to write our expert caption

• So start by describing the main message of the
  cartoon,
• then refer to the detail that supports your view,
• and finally make comments about the value of the
  cartoon to historians who want to know how
  effective the police force was in 1830?

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Credits

• The British Museum
• GCSE Crime and Punishment , Shephard and Rees,
  Hodder, 2005.