Modern policing was born out of a series of transatlantic ruling class experiments to repress radical rebellion.

There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism. While capitalism did not create inequality, it structured society such that new methods and tools were required to impose its uniquely unequal order — with threat of, and acts of, violence — in new ways. The police became one of the…

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