OK so why leave them behind? You can't honestly think they forgot them?
Forgot them, or just didnt care enough to bring them, who knows.
Even in our current day and age of police procedures and accountability you think they would know their stuff,
but many either through incompetence or plain disregard, still fail to follow lawfully required procedures in execution of their duties.
Police cases against defendants often get thrown out of court simply due to poor police procedures in investigations & prosecutions.
They slip up on some of the most fundamental points of law, that it makes one wonder how they managed to be so hopeless or attain
the rank & position they have.Judges have rightly chastised and derided police for amateurish and scatter brain efforts in a courtroom.
So consider how loose they are with procedures in the field among themselves...in the 1880s I think police would have been worse.
