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Coined the term "polis," one of the roots of modern police

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Maintaining the peace for the King became the job of constables, aided by watchmen.

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Armed Spanish bands hunted runaways in Cuba

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Barbados adopted the slave patrol system used in Cuba in the 1530s.

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Boston establishes a watch

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New York tried paying watchmen instead of having their role be volunteer-based

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Barbados, an English colony, passed it's first slave law, a special set of rules for slaves.

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Virginia established a set of laws for slaves.

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The first slave patrol in South Carolina, founded by slaveowners from Barbados

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The governor of Philadelphia recommended a militia to make cities safer than the watchmen

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Virginia established its first slave patrol.

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North Carolina established its first slave patrol.

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(1769) "Commentaries on the Laws of England"

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(1769) "Commentaries on the Laws of England"

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Argued that the king directs the public police

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(1779) Thomas Jefferson creates chair in "law and police"

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(1779) Thomas Jefferson creates chair in "law and police"

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Changes the meaning of the world police

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Jeremy Bentham noted that "police" had entered the English language

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1797: A Treatise of the Police of the Metropolis" 

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1797: A Treatise of the Police of the Metropolis" 

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A magistrate in London, Patrick Colquhoun, published this treatise.

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Home Secretary Robert Peel, through Parliament, created a Metropolitan polce, nicknamed the "bobbies"

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(1829) "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World"

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(1829) "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World"

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Book by black abolitionist David Walker, calls for rebellion

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Massachusetts' legislature suthorized the hiring of police in Boston

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(1840) Start of lynchings by marshals and deputies in the US

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(1840) Start of lynchings by marshals and deputies in the US

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~500 Mexicans killed in Texas and other southern territories

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1851: Vigilante Committee Established in San Francisco

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1851: Vigilante Committee Established in San Francisco

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This committee boasted about it's lynchings

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NY Municipal Police fought the NY Metropolitan Police on the city hall steps.

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A regiment of cavalrymen killed hundreds of Lakotan people.

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August Vollmer becomes chief of Berkeley police department, implements military tactics

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Enforced federal immigration law on the Mexican border

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1957 Birmingham Police Clubbing at Little Rock

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1957 Birmingham Police Clubbing at Little Rock

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They clubbed and arresting 700 Black children while they protested segregation.

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Arkansas State Troppers block Black student from entering Little Rock Central High school

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President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on crime and passed the Law Enforcement Assistance Act

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1968: Law Enforcement Assistance Administration

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1968: Law Enforcement Assistance Administration

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dispersed funds to crime-control projects, including from social servaces

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Stands for Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets. So many young black men were killed, Black police officers demanded the group be disbanded

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A protest over police brutality was fired upon and more than a thousand people were arrested

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"Crime is a national defense problem, you're in as much jeopardy in the streets as you are from a Soviet missile."

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(1984) Democrats introduce Comprehensive Crime Control Act

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(1984) Democrats introduce Comprehensive Crime Control Act

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Rallying cry to abolish the police became common

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Beaten by LAPD while being arrested for drunk driving

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Introduced by Joe Biden, provides protections for police under investigation

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George Simmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin while serving his neighborhood watch

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2013: Police Killed Unarmed Orchard Working from Mexico

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2013: Police Killed Unarmed Orchard Working from Mexico

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Three policemen shot 17 bullets.

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Unarmed black man shot and killed by police in St. Louis

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(2014) Obama introduces Policing Task Force

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(2014) Obama introduces Policing Task Force

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In response to public outcry over Micheal Brown's murder by police

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US Police fatally shot more people than England and Wales did in 24 years.

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Floyd was killed by a police officer who held him on the ground with his knee.