Re: Policing Ancient Rome
There were groups like the tresviri capitales, the urban cohorts, and even the vigiles, at varying periods. For the greater part of time, in most places, crimes weren't a state concern unless committed against someone important - so you can imagine how little a perceived need there was for a lower order police force.
"It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive_alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, atc. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment." - Yevgeny Zamyatin
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