Our forefathers lived free of cops, their violence, enormous budgets, and bureaucratic departments, until the 1850s. Why can’t we?

Most small towns across America had a local Sheriff.

Even in Tombstone, AZ they had a town Marshal. The County Sheriff was a different story. ;)

This is some kind of masturbatory fantasy rewrite of history by an anarcphist. Secondly, the ‘brutal treatment’ of the poor benighted blacks at the hands of the cops has always been the merest ghost of the brutal treatment they have treated each other with. Third, in this fantasy past, no matter when it was historically, if it was in the United States, it was much more violent and bloody than it is now. We live in the least violent time in US history. The statistics are clear. Which means this is sloppy, emotion-driven bullshit.

I laughed when I read that first sentence.

You spell out quite clearly the true history of the black race since it was other black tribes in Africa who sold their enemies into slavery.

Sloppy and emotion-driven is indeed what this is. ;)

We’ve always had some kind of cops

While there has always been some form of law enforcement, a centralized, bureaucratic police system did not emerge until well into the 1800s,

Our forefathers lived free of cops, their violence, enormous budgets, and bureaucratic departments, until the 1850s. Why can’t we?

Abe Lincon/Karl Marx and the D&R Communist party.