mattgorman:nezua:Never forget the foundation of Law and Order.Reminder that this isn’t hyperbole or
mattgorman:nezua:Never forget the foundation of Law and Order.Reminder that this isn’t hyperbole or simply a picture of two similar badges, this is actual documented history:“The genesis of the modern police organization in the South is the "Slave Patrol” (Platt 1982). The first formal slave patrol was created in the Carolina colonies in 1704 (Reichel 1992). Slave patrols had three primary functions: (1) to chase down, apprehend, and return to their owners, runaway slaves; (2) to provide a form of organized terror to deter slave revolts; and, (3) to maintain a form of discipline for slave-workers who were subject to summary justice, outside of the law, if they violated any plantation rules. Following the Civil War, these vigilante-style organizations evolved in modern Southern police departments primarily as a means of controlling freed slaves who were now laborers working in an agricultural caste system, and enforcing “Jim Crow” segregation laws, designed to deny freed slaves equal rights and access to the political system.“http://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-1 -- source link
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