We will be sending out another email with a more in-depth explainer of why modern day police were developed to protect the elite class later this week. If you haven't signed our petiton yet please so you can receive our emails. 2/5
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"Inequality was increasing rapidly; the exploitation of workers through long hours, dangerous working conditions, and low pay was endemic; and the dominance of local governments by economic elites was creating political unrest. 3/5
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The only effective political strategy available to exploited workers was what economic elites referred to as "rioting," which was actually a primitive form of what would become union strikes against employers (Silver 1967). 4/5
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The modern police force not only provided an organized, centralized body of men legally authorized to use force to maintain order, it also provided the illusion that this order was being maintained under the rule of law, not at the whim of those with economic power." G Potter 5/5
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