Allan Pinkerton affiliated with the notorious Banditti of the Prairie. After observing their movements for some time he informed the local sheriff, who arrested them. This later led to Pinkerton being appointed, in 1849, as the first police detective in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. In 1850, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co, and finally Pinkerton National Detective Agency, still in existence today as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas AB. Pinkerton's business insignia was a wide open eye with the caption "We never sleep." As the US
The War We Never Fought possession and use were also punished. In April 2012, he gave evidence to the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee as part of its inquiry into drugs policy and called for the British government to introduce a more hardline policy on drugs. The cover image is an obvious take on the album cover for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". A month before "The War We Never Fought"'s publication, Ed West in "The Daily Telegraph" said that the book had provoked criticism not only from the Left, but also from the free-market libertarian Right, In "Prospect" magazine, Peter Lilley wrote that