• NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    We’re a police state. Whenever you hear Republicans or neoliberal complain about anything in the justice system is because the system isn’t draconian enough. Chuck and Jeffries are bought by the prison industrial complex.

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      Dude, we invented police. Literally. We are the original police state, which can be easily backed up by the fact that we have a higher percentage of incarcerated individuals than any other nation. And that has been true for a very long time.

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        I believe the original police was created in Britain in the late 1820’s by Robert Peel. It was another 30 years for it to be copied in the US. As a UK citizen I can only apologise although much like your government you created something much much worse. Quite the achievement based on how bad our own police are, and government.

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          The Scotland Yard or whatever they started with did not really even resemble modern policing.