Episode 2
How The First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich
Behind the Bastards · Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
June 18, 20201h 31mExplicit
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Show Notes
When U.S. police departments didn't evolve out of slave patrols, they tended to form out of a desire to protect the property of the wealthy. In practice, this meant beating, murdering and arresting people who didn't want to work 12 hour days until they died.
FOOTNOTES:
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- The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
- The Beginning of American Policing
- How Stereotypes of the Irish Evolved From ‘Criminals’ to Cops
- REMEMBERING THE 1906 STRIKE FOR UNION IN WINDBER, PENNSYLVANIA
- State Police were warned about possible racial bias in car searches. The agency's answer? End the research.
- The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep
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