[–] 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
This is common sense.
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.
[–] stray502 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
lol none of you would have survived on any street in the 1800s. Citizens did not maintain order in a lot of places. Some got lucky to get a bad ass in as Sherrif to clean up the streets but most had to put up with a lot of abuse and a lot of murders. A town with 20,000 people back in the 1800s had 3500 murders a year think about that. I dont know where the hell you ever got the impressin it was law and order it was the exact opposite of that. That is how the police force came in.
[–] lettersofmarque [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
A town with 20,000 people back in the 1800s had 3500 murders a year
So every single person in town is murdered within 6 years?
[–] 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.
[–] A_M_Swallow 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
In 19th century Britain the local police were controlled by the Watch Committee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_committee
Before the police were created the city streets of Britain and the USA were patrolled by 'Watchmen' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchman_(law_enforcement)
[–] GapingAnus 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
At some point we invented fire as well. People had been doing just fine without fire for hundreds of thousands of years prior to this.
Don't buy in to this new-fangled need for (((fire))).
[–] 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?
https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-1
Link to article
Anybody else notice a relationship here?
Edit: fixed a link.
[–] fightknightHERO 1 point 6 points 7 points (+7|-1) ago
the boys in blue work for the jew...
[–] unscreen 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
The police existed in Boston since the mid-late 1600's, but they cleared the drunk, passed out bums off the streets and did stuff like that. They weren't going around arresting people like today.
[–] 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: