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Ep 227 - Abolition with David Correia

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The Birth of Police in the United States

Before oil and gas took hold as a primary fossil fuel, anthracite fueled every steamship that cost every ocean. It heated every hearth and home up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States. 147,000 anthracite coal miners walked out on strike in 1902; it threatened to shut down all industries. The story is really a story about the birth of police as we know it.

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