Read the whole article because it’s hilarious.

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    At all points. It was a gang that started wearing was given badges, not a ‘serve and protect’ force that (d)evolved into a gang.

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      Well I can only speak for where I grew up (not CA) in the 90s, and police were far less militarized back then.

      They may have always been racist pieces of shit, but things are definitely much worse than they were back then.

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        Oh, that’s def true, headlines about military equipment being bought by normal USA police departments keep popping up.

        The militarisation def doesn’t help with the problem.

        But I was referring more to the start, the colonial and early independent era, what existing groups were recruited/rebranded into the first police departments.