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.
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.
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.