Sad and Predictable
The Dispatch Podcast
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Police Departments in the United States Aren't Just New Inventions
The first world modern police department was the Metropolitan Police in London, founded by Peel back in the 19th century. In Philadelphia, to bring it back to- Well, this is way back. I'm talking kind of sort of a mutthoene kind of organization. They were, you know, public defenders of public morality and that sort of thing. But as modern police departments are relatively new inventions, they have a lot of the character that you see of other kinds of similar public bureaucracies.
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