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  2. List of law enforcement agencies in Texas - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 1,913 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state. These agencies employed 59,219 sworn police officers, about 244 for each 100,000 residents.

  3. Texas Ranger Division - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Ranger Division joins with all other enforcement agencies in the suppression of the same; under orders of the Director, suppress all criminal activity in any given area, when it is apparent that the local officials are unwilling or unable to maintain law and order; also upon the request or order of a judge of a court of record, Texas ...

  4. History of criminal justice - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Empire had a reasonably effective law enforcement system until the decline of the empire, though there was never an actual police force in the city of Rome. When under the reign of Augustus the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, he created 14 wards , which were protected by seven squads of 1,000 men. [ 13 ]

  5. Vigiles - Wikipedia

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    In Death in Vesunna by Harry Turtledove, the vigiles of Vesunna, Roman Gaul (now modern Périgueux, France) are tasked to hunt down two murderers from the future, whose victim was a prominent citizen in the city whom they murdered with a pistol. Despite initial bafflement, the head of the vigiles is able to solve the case with help from his ...

  6. List of Roman laws - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of Roman laws.A Roman law (Latin: lex) is usually named for the sponsoring legislator and designated by the adjectival form of his gens name (nomen gentilicum), in the feminine form because the noun lex (plural leges) is of feminine grammatical gender.

  7. Corsicana Daily Sun - Wikipedia

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    The Corsicana Daily Sun is a morning daily newspaper published in Corsicana, Texas, covering Navarro County. It is now published two days a week (Tuesday and Saturday). It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. The Daily Sun first published on March 2, 1895. In 2020, the newspaper celebrated its 125th anniversary.

  8. US appeals court weighing fate of Texas border enforcement law

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    The two judges who spoke during Wednesday's hour-long arguments split sharply over whether S.B. 4 improperly interferes with the federal government's enforcement of U.S. immigration law as the ...

  9. Roman law - Wikipedia

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    Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I.