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Being able to lose the paper trail is a feature, not a bug, so a system like that would never be implemented. The police exist to protect the property and stat

Being able to lose the paper trail is a feature, not a bug, so a system like that would never be implemented. The police exist to protect the property and station of those in power. It's why New York City was able to function without a police department until the 1840s while the New York Fire Department can trace its history back to the 1640s.

MagnumOpus 7y ago
New York had 180 police officers (marshals and local policemen, and before that, night watchmen) way before the NYPD was established - they were just not organised in one big hierarchy because most crime was local before the mid-19th century immigration wave.