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by LudwigNagasena
1070 days ago
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> Police departments in the US derived from English law, which had a system of unpaid enforcement via gentry. Prior to that, reeves were individuals charged with keeping the peace. Prior to that it was expected everyone contributed via frankpledge.
> This takes us back to around the year 1000. > There's not much evidence of law enforcement prior to that in the direct historical lineage of US policing. There is. Police departments in England are derived from police departments in France. > If you've got good resources on Sumerian or Mesopotamian enforcement, I'd be interested, but it's pretty far off topic of the US law enforcement lineage. It is not. People in the US like to find idiosyncratic reasons for why things are so in the US and why their country is oh so unique, but the truth often is that things are like that everywhere —even in places where such idiosyncratic reasons couldn't exist. |
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