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Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing

Behind the Bastards

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Is Abilene a Free Fire Zone?

US police were formed as a slave patrol and to defend white people against Native Americans. US settlers in New England appointed Indian constables whose job was to police Native Americans, often by violent terror. Slave patrollers had the right to detain interrogate and search slave quarters. They also had theRight to punish black people on the spot for infractions of slave laws.

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