section_path: History/Ancient/The Americas
section_name: The Americas
paragraph_text: The Americas
  
  Pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas also had organized law enforcement. The city-states of the Maya civilization had constables known as tupils. In the Aztec Empire, judges had officers serving under them who were empowered to perform arrests, even of dignitaries. In the Inca Empire, officials called curaca enforced the law among the households they were assigned to oversee, with inspectors known as tokoyrikoq (lit. ' he who sees all ') also stationed throughout the provinces to keep order.