The History of Police in the United States

Last week we dug into the very racest roots of us. We're going to kind of peel back out again to discuss how the broader system of policing evolved over the last century. By the time this nation started entering, you now, what most people would call the modern era, most police departments were d facto the enforcement arm of organized crime. Doctor garry potter insists that it's actually wrong to call the police in this period corrupt. He writes they were, in fact, primary instruments for the creation of corruption in the first place.