Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In the U.S. the first publicly funded police force was formed in Boston, to protect economic interests. The company that started it argued that police should be a publicly funded thing (even though they were just protecting their shipping yards) because it was for a common good.

    So from the beginning it was nothing more than protection of the wealthy. There’s been little change from that today. They just pretend they’re here to help.