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It's your lucky day for learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol

Downvoters can't handle the truth: modern police evolved from slave patrols. Modern abuses towards African-Americans evolved from traditional abuses towards slaves. Modern police techniques which attack the protesting public evolved from lynch mobs which attacked individual protestors.

From Wikipedia: "The slave patrols' function was to police enslaved persons"

How can their function have been to "police" slaves, when policing hat not yet been invented and only evolved from those slave patrols? And how did governments keep order before slavery made the invention of "police" possible?

In any case, what does it matter what it evolved from?

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