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'Is Detection a Failure?', 1888. Punch points out the drawbacks inherent in the footsteps of the policeman being dogged by journalists. While the detective's work is making headline news on the 'Muckrake Gazette, the criminal is able to take his ease at home and wait for a quieter time to return to business. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 20, 1888. (Photo by The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

'Is Detection a Failure?', 1888. Punch points out the drawbacks inherent in the footsteps of the policeman being dogged by journalists. While the detective's work is making headline news on the 'Muckrake Gazette, the criminal is able to take his ease at home and wait for a quieter time to return to business. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 20, 1888. (Photo by The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)