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The Origins of Policing -- from the Middle Ages to the First World War

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Police and the History of English Common Law

For most of the history of english common law, there have not been police. It's something that arose mainly in britain and the united states within the last 200 years. This was largely a response to the threats of possible resistance or unruliness by large laboring populations in cities. That was sort of the pivotal time when things like what we would call police started to emerge.

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