Comment by tialaramex
1 month ago
AIUI US policing is descended from slave catching and strike breaking. Two activities which I think we'd say today are obviously bad.
In many European states their policing starts as town guards tasked with ensuring order. Order is, at least, not obviously bad.
So that's a philosophical difference in what these forces even think their purpose is.
You understand it wrong. That's not where police come from.
If you want to make your comment useful, you could share some information about where you understand policing in America to have originated.
Law enforcement is an idea that originated when law originated. There is no law without enforcement.
American settlers got the idea from the same place they got the idea for laws. Their home countries.
Enforcing laws isn't an American invention, let's not be ridiculous.
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