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Vigilante Justice
The year is 1851 in the newest biggest town of San Francisco, where the first vigilante committee was formed. These committees have been around longer than any police station in the west, and their sole purpose was to act as the law when the law was absent. During these times in San Francisco the crime rates were outrageous because of the new found golden wealth in the area. When the gold rush hit people from all over the world flocked to get a piece of the golden pie. Back then these vigilante committees were needed because the lack of police force, the people of these towns would trust these vigilantes and some sheriffs would even hire them. Without these brave men and women that formed to make these vigilante committees, the Old West would have been written in the history book as the bloodiest most crime ridden time of American History. When the law isn’t in town the outlaws would take advantage of it and raid the town that’s defenseless. With the creation of these public crime fighting units, outlaws started to become afraid of these committees because they knew that if there were captured death would follow soon after. What vigilantes have done in the past and continue to do today is indeed questionable, but they should not be seen as criminals as they are today.
In the past the vigilante was a member of a committee set up in the rural and frontier towns to keep the peace when no one else could. Most of the time the sheriff and deputy were off on an Indian hunt, so the town needed a way to fight crime when the law was gone. Threat was imminent for towns like these the criminals weren’t the smartest tools in the shed, but they knew how to use a gun and weren’t afraid of the cold embrace of death. Fighting against someone who has nothing to lose is usually not an ideal situation. These simple townsfolk had to protect themselves from these savage criminals, and in most cases the man in town with the biggest set of testies was the
Vigilante Justice
The year is 1851 in the newest biggest town of San Francisco, where the first vigilante committee was formed. These committees have been around longer than any police station in the west, and their sole purpose was to act as the law when the law was absent. During these times in San Francisco the crime rates were outrageous because of the new found golden wealth in the area. When the gold rush hit people from all over the world flocked to get a piece of the golden pie. Back then these vigilante committees were needed because the lack of police force, the people of these towns would trust these vigilantes and some sheriffs would even hire them. Without these brave men and women that formed to make these vigilante committees, the Old West would have been written in the history book as the bloodiest most crime ridden time of American History. When the law isn’t in town the outlaws would take advantage of it and raid the town that’s defenseless. With the creation of these public crime fighting units, outlaws started to become afraid of these committees because they knew that if there were captured death would follow soon after. What vigilantes have done in the past and continue to do today is indeed questionable, but they should not be seen as criminals as they are today.
In the past the vigilante was a member of a committee set up in the rural and frontier towns to keep the peace when no one else could. Most of the time the sheriff and deputy were off on an Indian hunt, so the town needed a way to fight crime when the law was gone. Threat was imminent for towns like these the criminals weren’t the smartest tools in the shed, but they knew how to use a gun and weren’t afraid of the cold embrace of death. Fighting against someone who has nothing to lose is usually not an ideal situation. These simple townsfolk had to protect themselves from these savage criminals, and in most cases the man in town with the biggest set of testies was the
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