No Notes, No Net
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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Modern Police Departments Are More Recent Than the Fugitive Slave Act Was Passed
Modern professional police departments with civil service rules and all that kind of stuff in America are more recent than a lot of people would think. But the causal relationship between the Fugitive Slave Act and say the founding of the Memphis Police Department, which came nine years earlier, or the San Francisco Police Department, just isn't there. There's just not a connective tissue there at the time.
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