Way to create a strawman there pal. My point was that informal police organizations were the basis for the formal police organizations that followed, not the sl

Way to create a strawman there pal. My point was that informal police organizations were the basis for the formal police organizations that followed, not the slave patrols. The North also had slave patrols for several decades and was almost as racist as the South during the post-Civil War era. They just did a better job of hiding it. (By the way, Oklahoma was below the Mason-Dixon line and would have been considered a slave state if it had been a state at the start of the Civil War. As it was, Oklahoma was then known as the Indian Territory and most of the tribes owned slaves and fought on behalf of the Confederacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Territory_in_the_American_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Territory_in_the_Americ...)