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That's not true, modern policing started in London and was brought over. Further developments in China were also brought to the US. Before that the US did have
by Vecr 2y ago
That's not true, modern policing started in London and was brought over. Further developments in China were also brought to the US. Before that the US did have law enforcement, but it generally was not as large scale with the hundreds or thousands of officers used now. The larger scale slave catching gangs were a dead end and didn't lead into modern law enforcement, but various dubious "projects" attempt to conflate that.
For example, SWAT teams were invented in China under the advisory of British police, not in the US south.
- culi 2y agoThis is a much written about topic https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/civil-rights-reimagining-policing/how-you-start-is-how-you-finish/ https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-...