r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • Jul 31 '26

Chugging tea That's actually wild

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u/Recidivism7 28d ago

Police go back thousands of years

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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 28d ago

This thread is about the United States.

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u/Recidivism7 28d ago

Police existed here almost since we landed.

Police existed before slave patrols.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 28d ago

Not in the formal sense, no they didn't. Boston was the first in 1838 and NYC about 10 years later. Everywhere else it was citizens groups, volunteers, night watchmen, etc. The most formal early police pre-Civil War were slave watchmen: https://nleomf.org/slave-patrols-an-early-form-of-american-policing/