> He stated "modern policing," which I would guess is since the 1980s and the drug war, then 9/11. All this is fairly new, and started within my lifetime. This

> He stated "modern policing," which I would guess is since the 1980s and the drug war, then 9/11. All this is fairly new, and started within my lifetime. This is "normal" to the younger generation, but it's horrifies me. Yup, the US incarceration rate started rising to these insane current day levels around the 1980s [0] Interestingly enough, the incarceration rate kept rising even while crime was going down, but crime going down wasn't a US exclusive phenomena, Canada saw the same trend without mass incarcerating people. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#/media/File:U.S._incarceration_rates_1925_onwards.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... [1] https://youtu.be/wtV5ev6813I https://youtu.be/wtV5ev6813I