Thursday, April 23, 2009

Law and Order in Sekiya, Day 8

Who is responsible for catching criminals? Who pays the crook-catchers--the king, the city government, a consortium of merchants, somebody else? How are they organized--into independent police precincts, or into overlapping districts, or just according to whoever wants to hire them?

Each villiage and town has its own guard, paid by the town leaders. In large cities, the guard is its own job, but in more rural areas, the guard may just be everyday people that happen to know how to wield a weapon, and are usually paid in food

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