[–] spaceman84 ago
Doubt it. Highway robbers were a common threat to travelers and farmers for centuries. Most common folk didn't have weapons until industrialization made them affordable. Crime was far easier to get away with as well.
[–] lettersofmarque [S] 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago (edited ago)
The question of the hour for me is: The police were established to protect whom?
In 1838, the city of Boston established the first American police force, followed New York City in 1845, Albany, NY and Chicago in 1851, New Orleans and Cincinnati in 1853, Philadelphia in 1855, and Newark, NJ and Baltimore
https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-1
In cities more distant from the South than Cincinnati, the number of Southern-born blacks grew steadily during the antebellum years. By 1860, 65 percent of Detroit's African American population had been born in the South. In other Northern cities, too, southern migrants were becoming a more significant proportion of the African-American population. In Boston, almost 30 percent of the city's blacks were migrants, as were more than half in Chicago, almost one-third in Philadelphia, and close to 40 percent in Buffalo. Migration from their Southern homes was not easy, but as the antebellum period wore on, more and more African Americans made the move.
Anybody else notice a relationship here?
Edit: fixed a link.
[–] dayofthehope 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
From the article, it seems that the police was established by Jews to protect their business interests at the expense of the public:
The emerging commercial elites needed a mechanism to insure a stable and orderly work force, a stable and orderly environment for the conduct of business, and the maintenance of what they referred to as the "collective good" (Spitzer and Scull 1977). These mercantile interests also wanted to divest themselves of the cost of protecting their own enterprises, transferring those costs from the private sector to the state.
[–] fightknightHERO 1 point 6 points 7 points (+7|-1) ago
the boys in blue work for the jew...
[–] CapinBoredface 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
In an ideal, racially homogenous, small population of people, sure.
But once you start adding in other races and increasing the number of people in an area they start to need policing. This is common sense.
[–] lettersofmarque [S] 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
Is it? Do you believe citizens could not maintain order on their own?
[–] CapinBoredface 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Happy white citizens in a small town sure can.
3 million immigrants sure as fuck can’t.