Your City, USA —During Post slavery and Civil War Reconstruction, law enforcement was primitive and significantly challenged. Crime was out-of-control and there were insufficient police resources to deal with it.  The only immediate answer was to draft a vigilante militia force to protect the public.    The first significant response was the creation of the Ku Klux Klan .  They took a pretty much a terrorist approach wearing their hoods to conceal their identities.      The Klan slowed down crime all right.  It was in part because the sight of alleged offenders hanging from various trees that made quite an impression.     There was only a couple of problems in that there was a lack of due process, trials and accordingly no appeals.  Punishments were influenced by anger, prejudice and the amount of alcohol that Klan members were consuming.    The Klan was quite popular and many of our respected Democrat Congressmen were mem...