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How The First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich

Behind the Bastards

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The first rehomal police department was started in boston in 18 38. President john fitzgerald kennedy designated the week of may fifteenth to be national police week. A sizable chunk of american policing came out of a desire to suppress folks, number one, that we today would call white but at the time, kind of the people with money didn't really consider to be white. But also, more than anything, it came from a desire to police labor, like the working class. The story of the broad street riot is that a funeral for irish immigrants ran into a volunteer fire fighting company who were on their way back from fighting fires.

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