
Ep 227 - Abolition with David Correia
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The History of the Pennsylvania State Police
The first SWAT unit in the U.S. was created by consortium of coal mine operators in Hazleton area of Pennsylvania 1902. After the strike, they used those models of new kinds of policing to create the Pennsylvania State Police. They hired the captain of one of the militias that came into the coal fields during the strike and he had a model that he paired with the Royal Irish Constabulary. He understood police as a colonial occupation.
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