• forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org
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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.