Behind the Police

For years protesters have chanted that the 'cops and klan go hand in hand'. Today, we discuss the very real history behind that, and how it influenced the birth of American policing.

FOOTNOTES:

1. KKK in the PD
2. The Red Summer of 1919, Explained
3. At least 2,000 more black people were lynched by white mobs than previously reported, new research finds
4. Extremist cops: how US law enforcement is failing to police itself
5. Yesterday’s Ku Klux Klan members are today’s police officers, councilwoman says
6. The FBI’s Secret Rules
7. Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction
8. The US government destroyed the Ku Klux Klan once. It could do so again
9. Constituting whiteness: The National Horse Thief Detective Association and racial mores in Indiana, 1850–1930
10. When Watchmen were Klansmen
11. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

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When U.S. police departments didn't evolve out of slave patrols, they tended to form out of a desire to protect the property of the wealthy. In practice, this meant beating, murdering and arresting people who didn't want to work 12 hour days until they died.

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1. Krypteia: A Form of Ancient Guerrilla Warfare 
2. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
3. The Beginning of American Policing
4. How Stereotypes of the Irish Evolved From ‘Criminals’ to Cops
5. REMEMBERING THE 1906 STRIKE FOR UNION IN WINDBER, PENNSYLVANIA
6. State Police were warned about possible racial bias in car searches. The agency's answer? End the research.
7. The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep

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Ever wonder how Policing started in the U.S.? In this episode, Robert and Prop trace the bloody birth of American policing, from Ancient Greece, to the slave-holding South, to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri today. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice
2. A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing
3. Slave Patrols: An Early Form of American Policing
4. How the U.S. Got Its Police Force
5. Slave Patrols
6. The History of the Police
7. The History of Policing in the United States
8. Police Dog Bites Black Man
9. A Look at Urban Violence & Police Brutality in Ancient Rome

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How did American police get so violent? The answer to that question goes back centuries, to the earliest days of this nation. On this special podcast miniseries hosts journalist, Robert Evans and rap artist, Propaganda (Jason Petty) draw a straight line from the darkest days of slavery, to the murder of George Floyd and the mass violence American police meted out to their citizens this summer. 

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