How You Start is How You Finish? The Slave Patrol and Jim Crow Origins of Policing (www.americanbar.org)

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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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[-] Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] EffectivelyHidden@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

So, I just read the article.

Which line of it "pretends" policing didn't exist before the American South?

Because I'm not seeing what you're claiming.

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