The Origins of Policing -- from the Middle Ages to the First World War
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The First State Police Forces in the United States
The first forerunner of what you could call a kind of state police force was in texas, the texas angers and the texas rangers were organized in the 18 twenties when texas was still part of mexico. By this time, it was fairly clear that city police forces were no longer useful for the purpose of controlling and suppressing worker actions. They had just exhausted that function. So if these issues of strikes and sabotage and riots were so endemic in the cities, why did state governments feel the to create state wide forces that could patrol and make arrests all around the countryside? That was partly due to this situation with the evolution of city police forces, and also because of
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