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Centuries plural lol... Amercan didnt have police forces until the middle of the 19th century, but please do continue with that train of thought..it doesnt seem at all hyperbolic
The first U.S. constable was 1634.
Slave patrols were set up in the 1700's and went on until slavery was ended.
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Carfacemandog wrote: »Fair, and to be honest I misread your other post as sarcastically saying 50 cops should knock down to that psoters house. Definitely agree though the doxxed guy should be charged, there's no defending what he did either.
And now that we are being civil and polite again, lets get back to fighting with each other.
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The first U.S. constable was 1634.
Slave patrols were set up in the 1700's and went on until slavery was ended.
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Actually, they are somewhat correct - while there were police-like forces, it wasn't until the 1800s and in many places, after the Civil War that outright police departments became more commonplace (the first full time, publically funded department was Boston in 1838). Police forces from the south came almost entirely directly from the forces that used to exist to hunt down escaped slaves and return them to their owners, while in the Union states they came from forces that typically were used to bear and murder workers trying to unionize back into line (e.g. the poor) - this is actually where the Pinkertons apparently made the bulk of their money, not hunting down Arthur Morgan and Co.
Those from the north kind of amalgamated a bunch of different forces designed to keep the poor in line together to become police departments but are ultimately borne of being anti union and pro wealth. If you're ever in a formerly Confederate city that existed prior to Emancipation, their police force likely directly descended from the agencies hired to catch escaped slaves and violently squash any uprisings. Ironically, after slavery the treatment of black people by these forces often got worse - because they didn't have to answer to a slave owner as to why their 'livestock' died in their custody.
Even when you move forward a few decades, the police almost exclusively existed to protect the interests of the rich, with the US having crazy laws about 'loitering' which essentially said to be outdoors you had to be in work, on the way to/from work, or on the way directly to/from something like the market, train station, etc. In some instances, to call upon the police you needed to use a special phone booth - which was locked, with keys being provided exclusively to wealthy and connected people. Their job very often was to just ensure the poor didn't even come within a peripheral distance of where rich people lived or congregated, unless of course that was the factories and such that they owned.
A lot of this ties into why American policing is long, long overdue a reset of sorts, similar to the Blacks and Tans being replaced by An Garda Siochana a century ago, or even less than two decades back, the RUC becoming the PSNI. The rot isn't something that's been building, so much as it's something that's been baked in from the beginning.0
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