New York river police.
Thames policemen embarking on a river patrol.
A New York policeman.
A London policeman.
An undercover policeman.
A policeman and a burglar.
A policeman.
A criminal avoiding policemen.
A policeman stopping a burglary.
A village lock-up.
A campaign for more humane treatment of offenders.
A Police Officer surprising a burglar and holding a portable lamp.
A Detective.
Criminals and police.
The interior of the Bow Street Police Station.
A prison warden.
Two constables escorting a prisoner on a train journey.
Thames Policemen.
The execution of John Thurtell.
Ill news for the criminal fraternity.
A court room scene.
Children who were arrested for begging.
A biblical scene.
A New York police patrol wagon.
How the introduction of the telegraph assisted British police in capturing criminals.
A convict having his photograph taken for police records.
A 'Cat-o'-nine-tails'.
Northern English labourer stealing buried treasure.
Convicts at work.
The Home Secretary, Robert Lowe.
Bertillon card for Thomas Conway.
Example of police records used for the identification of criminals.
An assassin.
A prisoner awaiting execution.
A public execution.
An execution by guillotine.
A condemned man.
The trial of Madame Laffarge.
The capture of Moses Shapira.
Animals on Trial.
The torturing of a prisoner.
A Syrian criminal.
A man being flogged.
Punishment by the stocks.
A pickpocket distracting his victim.
An intruder.
A burglar getting stuck in the window.
Prisoners in the exercise yard.
A convict in travelling irons.
A convicted prisoner being defiant.
The prison reform movement.
A prisoner in his cell.
A store clerk being caught stealing.
A Syrian criminal being punished.
A death by guillotine.
The condemned cell at Newgate Prison.
A man and woman in stocks.
Bertillonage.
A clerk writing down evidence given by a witness.
18th century highwayman and victim
18th century highwayman flees a crime
Cain killing Abel.
Jael murdering Sisera by hammering a nail into his head.
The murder of Benhadad by smothering two Kings.
An assassin taking aim.
A Mandarin bureaucrat on trial.
Police records used to identify criminals.
A criminal being punished by flogging.
Gang warfare in London, England in the late 19th century
An inmate having his picture taken.
An early method of taking mug shots.
Cornish wreckers.
Punishment by Bastinado.
Boys taunting a man.
Graphic by Randolph Caldecott
If a saddlepoint does not exist for a payoff matrix, a probabilistic strategy is optimal to maximize expected (average) rewards.
Convicts working under supervision.
The head of a 'Catchpole'.
A man being executed.
Murder by Poison.
A cut-purse.
Old Patch.
Prisoners confined in stocks.
Charles W. Bullard.
Kitty Flynn.
Hand fire pump.
A man poaching.
A poacher with his lurcher.
Three men poaching.
ALGERIA: RIOTS, 1898.
Policeman prepares to fight. 19th century France. French illustration 1890
ALFRED DREYFUS (1859-1935).
England, London, Whitechapel, Cable Street, Jack The Ripper Museum, Exhibit of Policeman Discovering Murdered Woman
England, London, Whitechapel, Cable Street, Jack The Ripper Museum, Exhibit of Murder Investigation Policeman's Desk
A drunken man in the street.
Criminal Investigation detectives, at a crime scene, England 1950
A police officer photographing identity marks on a weapon found near the scene of a crime.
A British policeman stopping onlookers from entering a field where a German World War One airship has been shot down.
A victim using a street telescope whilst a pickpocket steals from them.
The proportional number of victims of the guillotine during the French Revolution.
Thugs with a cage of rats.
An escaped convict bribing a child.
A nurse chastising a child.
L'execution des Maillotins by Jean-Paul Laurens
John Fulton Reynolds, 1820 1863
Swiping Behind the Cop's Back 1909
The double assassination attempt on George III.
The looting of Mechelen.
A robber being visited by death.
The moneylender being visited by death.
Police with truncheons.
An execution by hanging.
Puck Magazine: A Sunday Morning in New York
Childrens book illustration about a highway robber
Smugglers.
England, London, Whitechapel, Cable Street, Jack The Ripper Museum, Exhibit of Original Police News Magazine detailing Various Murders
A cell in a local jail.
Victims of the guillotine.
A warden inspecting a cell.
The Police Arrested The Police
The French method of mounting mug shots.
BLOODY SUNDAY, 1887.
1930's FBI (federal Beureau of Investigation) officer (Agent).
Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, shown at The Siege of Sidney Street, popularly known as the "Battle of Stepney"
A farmer refusing to kill a duck.
James Dunlap.
Tom O'Day was a member of the infamous 'Hole In The Wall' gang.
Adam Worth.
John McCoy.
A burglar activating a basic home security locking system.
A burglar escaping down a ladder.
Wreckers luring a ship onto rocks.
Public hangings and burnings at the stake of Heretics.
Muscovite robbers on their way to commit a crime.
HARRY KENDALL THAW
A female offender brought before a Mandarin.
A 15th Century French villain.
A whipping post.
Lambert & Butler. Pirates & Highwaymen. cigarette card showing: Thomas Simpson (Old Mob) who robbed high profile celebrities in 17th Century England and was hanged in 1691
Lambert & Butler. Pirates & Highwaymen. cigarette card showing: 'Captain' James MacLaine a notorious highwayman. with his accomplice William Plunkett. He was known as the 'Gentleman Highwayman' as a result of his courteous behaviour during his robberies
King Edward II being dragged through Berkeley Castle.
CHARLES BECKER (1869-1915)
General Rafael Villegas Montesinos.
William Horsfall, a Yorkshire merchant and manufacturer, being murdered by Luddites near Huddersfield, 1812
DREYFUS AFFAIR, 1899.
WILLIAM MAGEAR TWEED
WILLIAM M. TWEED (1823-1878).
NAST: TWEED'S DOWNFALL.
WILLIAM H. THOMPSON
Conferring Knighthood On The Field Of Battle After The Recipient Has Killed Two Of The Enemy
David D'angers
The British policeman.
John Townsend.
When the Cat's away.