#Illustrated police news

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Illustrated Police News, London, October 11, 1879.

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From Illustrated Police News.

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Every time someone wants a return to the good old days when girls were meek and gentle, remember that people have always said that. It's like how the Ancient Greeks were lamenting their fallen, modern times.

The buxom, fighting, free-living, and generally scandalous ladies of Illustrated Police News (1896-1898)

(Courtesy of @yesterdaysprint)

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Another of Tony Sarg's drawings from Tony Sarg's New York, 1927. This is the police court at Jefferson Market.

Photo: Fine Art America

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one orrrr

two?

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Don't the police have a height requirement?

Some of you might have already seen Alesha (mouse) but you guys are yet to see NIGHTMARE

she's a menace (in the most uncomplimentary way possible)

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Ah yes, "The Illustrated Police News", Daily Mail / Express * (or possibly Sunday Sport / National Enquirer) of its day

* Mail & Express are famous notorious for, when at a loose end, publishing Madeline McCann / Lady Diana stories despite their increasing lack of currency.

In much the same way, IPN published nearly 200 Jack the Ripper front-page stories in the four years after those murders ended. Illustrated stories, of course. Also like them, IPN featured many anti-immigrant "here to take your jobs" stories.

IPN got good mileage from murder (mostly horrible, sometimes ghastly, occasionally just shocking), violent or scandalous goings-on (with illustrations to show how violently scandalous) and things to be outraged at (with illustrations to assist in being outraged...)

It was also partial to the adjective “fair”...

...and I was quite surprised that this one missed out on "fair somnambulist".

The captions didn't miss out on much else.

Stuff like these:

Or indeed these:

Has there ever been a compilation of The Best / Worst Of Illustrated Police News?

I'd buy it for the chuckle factor. ;-P

Oh ho HO let's see what villainy is afoot today *opens up the 1891 London Illustrated Police News*

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"Nekesa" by Mathew Omolo on INPRNT

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Engraving in the Illustrated Police News, London, 21 February 1885, concerning the activities of the dynamitards.

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Looks like they each brought a nun to a gunfight. And a gun to a nunfight. That's for saying my habit game is weak, Sister Frederick Maria!

The Illustrated Police News was one of those publications that should have gone on forever.

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Cartoon by Ernie in the July 7, 1936 New Masses.

(source: marxists.org)

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The Illustrated London News put it this way:

The savages committed certain outrages, on which the native police, under a white officer, allied forth and made so tremendous an example in the way of shooting, that though "everybody in the colony is delighted," we at home should be rather glad to be sure (which the story sis not quite make us) that the vengeance fell not only heavily but in the right place.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr