How You Start is How You Finish? The Slave Patrol and Jim Crow Origins of Policing
How You Start is How You Finish? The Slave Patrol and Jim Crow Origins of Policing
Though history books may say otherwise, policing in the United States has its roots in the slave patrols in the South. The institution of policing, and the larger justice system, must reconcile its past in order to evolve away from its racist roots.
Though history books may say otherwise, policing in the United States has its roots in the slave patrols in the South. The institution of policing, and the larger justice system, must reconcile its past in order to evolve away from its racist roots.
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There has been police ever since there has been a State, so for tens of thousands of years that we know of. Pretending that something didn't exist for 99% of its own history just to call it racist is silly.