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Professional law enforcement agencies are a recent development historically, and for a long time were resisted as something out of an authoritarian dystopia. Po
by closeparen 8y ago
Professional law enforcement agencies are a recent development historically, and for a long time were resisted as something out of an authoritarian dystopia. Policing was the job of amateurs and freelancers for much longer than it’s been a civil service bureaucracy. Even death investigation was, until recently, a side gig for the town doctor.
- geggam 8y agoIts almost like we outsourced our civic duties to hired guns
- learc83 8y agoYep, and there are good reasons that policing was put into the hands of professional agencies. London's self-proclaimed "Thief-Taker General" is a good example. A gang leader who made money through both committing and "solving" crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild
- jopsen 8y agoHow is this relevant? Human rights is a recent development, that does make them a bad idea? Or justify violations :) The concept of a professional trained police force is well proven by now, I see no reason to question it :)
- closeparen 8y agoParent said bounty hunting something out of a bad movie. So did institutional policing, at the time.