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The streets in London were dark and had a shortage of good quality artificial light. [1] It had been recognized for centuries that the coming of darkness to the unlit streets of a town brought a heightened threat of danger, and that the night provided cover to the disorderly and immoral, and to those bent on robbery or burglary or who in other ways threatened physical harm to people in the ...
A night-watchman state, also referred to as a minimal state or minarchy, whose proponents are known as minarchists, is a model of a state that is limited and minimal, whose functions depend on libertarian theory.
Soviet militsiya officer's cap cockade (service/parade version).. The name militsiya as applied to police forces originates from a Russian Provisional Government decree dated April 17, 1917, and from early Soviet history: both the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks intended to associate their new law-enforcement authority with the self-organisation of the people and to distinguish it ...
Watchman (law enforcement) Nightwatchman (cricket), a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play "Nightwatchman", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from Hard Promises; The Nightwatchman, or Tom Morello, a musician
Citizen X is a 1995 [1] American television film which covers the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture an unknown serial killer of women and children in the 1980s, and the bureaucratic obstacles they encounter.
The result in the Soviet Union was a dual approach of concessions to the United States and economic restructuring (perestroika) and democratization domestically, which eventually made it impossible for Gorbachev to reassert central control. Reaganite hawks have since argued that pressures stemming from increased U.S. defense spending was an ...
Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union (14 C, 141 P) Pages in category "Law enforcement in the Soviet Union" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Pages in category "Law enforcement agencies of the Soviet Union" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .