New York had 180 police officers (marshals and local policemen, and before that, night watchmen) way before the NYPD was established - they were just not organi

New York had 180 police officers (marshals and local policemen, and before that, night watchmen) way before the NYPD was established - they were just not organised in one big hierarchy because most crime was local before the mid-19th century immigration wave.