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The Origins of Policing in America

How American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.

by Chenjerai Kumanyika, Khalil Gibran Muhammad via Washington Post on September 24, 2020

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Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.