• frezik@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    Some of the earliest modern police forces in the US were slave patrols in the south. In the north, Boston was the first city to have a modern professional force. It grew out of a system where private companies were hiring their own security to protect their cargo in the Boston port, and offloaded that cost onto the public.

    Professional, publicly funded policing in the US has long been there to protect the interests of the powerful.