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Origins of the police
Whitehouse, David http://libcom.org/history/origins-police-david-whitehouse
Publisher: libcom.org
Date Written: 24/12/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Examining the creation of the first police forces, which took place in England and the US in just a few decades in the mid-19th century. And explaining that they were not brought into being to prevent crime or protect the public, but primarily to control crowds: the working class, white and black.
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