Episode #9: The United Police of America

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Did Derrick Chauvin follow protocol before the knee?

Before an official local police force was formed, local guards used to be either a hired militia by which ever entity ruled over a region, senate, monarchs, or oligarch; OR a collective of local, usually armed, people who felt a need to protect their neighborhoods.

The first official metropolitan police station was established in 1829 in England by Sir Robert Peel.

The century-old marker of civilized society, security (and the organizations society establishes to enforce that security), eventually evolved into the local and federal policing organizations that each country has.

The conversation on policing is indeed a global topic, since most protocol and processes are quite similar across the map.

But we focused on the US, specifically the circumstances in and ...