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Not just US-specific, but anywhere where the police force believes themselves to be separate from the folks they are policing. The police force in the US arose
by ebcode 8y ago
Not just US-specific, but anywhere where the police force believes themselves to be separate from the folks they are policing. The police force in the US arose from "slave patrols."
So in Germany, you might have "Germans policing Germans", but in the US it's basically "Whites policing Blacks".
- mpweiher 8y agohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-origins-of-policing-in-the-united-states/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-origins-of-policing-in...
- mpweiher 8y ago> "Germans policing Germans" vs. "Whites policing Blacks". The German constitution is also very clear on this: "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. 2Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt." https://dejure.org/gesetze/GG/1.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/GG/1.html "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority." https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html#p0022 https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h... So human dignity is inviolable. Not "citizens", not "Germans", but "humans".