The lasting legacy of Fouché was his distinction inherited in great part from the ancien régime between "high" policing, with its focus on national security, and "low" policing, with its focus on crime.
"You're as much a deterrent as anything else," said my kindly supervisor, after Mrs Dubbs (who we speculated endlessly, who had married Mrs Dubbs? What kind of living hell must he live in?) snarled something about my low policing rate on her imperious march past one day.
The "dismantling of the missing persons infrastructure" has provoked concern for a function that has traditionally been regarded as a low police priority.
Several thousand off-duty New York City police officers and their supporters gathered in Battery Park yesterday to show solidarity for the police, to protest what they considered low police pay and to criticize a new song by Bruce Springsteen.
Many of those cases were related to suspected credit card fraud, Uber said, adding that though that number might seem low, police can get data on trips from riders and drivers directly.
No one knows how many are trafficked into Britain's brothels and massage parlours - but then virtually no one is looking or counting: it's a low police priority.
That suggests that local control and more police are only partial answers; more important is dealing with abysmally low police productivity, paperwork that clogs up the system, and incompetence in other parts of the criminal justice set-up.It may be, too, that police reformers are trying to appeal to the wrong bit of "the public".
"The police crimes are very low, police officers are respectable in a lot of places.
The sorts of places where this "culture of honor" exists are where, historically, there are dangers of rustling, low police presence and few natural resources, according to the Social Psychological and Personality Science study.
9 Reasons for low police ascertainment include reliance on victims to report offences, fear of reprisals, not knowing the identity of assailants, few incentives to report, and unwillingness of victims to have their conduct scrutinised.
The highest-paid police chief earns £253,620, 11 times the lowest police salary of £22,680.
