The California Rangers were California's first state-wide law enforcement agency, formed in 1853 to deal particularly with the outlaw gangs troubling the Gold Country during the early 1850s. The original posse disbanded following their success in bringing the violent Five Joaquins gang to justice. As California's first state marshals, they were the precursor of all later California state police, including the "California Bureau of Investigation," reorganized on February 17, 2012.
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“The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)