1. The alternative to the police is armed vigilantes. We've had that quite a few times in our history. It has not typically worked out well for black Americans in particular.https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/1269281340656058368 …
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4. Without Sherman's militia, the California Governor ended up sending the state Chief Justice to parley with the vigilantes; he stabbed one of them nearly to death, & they held him hostage for months. Teetered on the bring of hanging him.
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5. California would have been better off following Sherman's advice to let the legitimately constituted authorities maintain a monopoly of force. Vigilante justice cut a wide swath through the Old West, often with terrible consequences.
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6. The creation of professional big-city police departments, originally a French legacy, was seen as a great progressive step forward when introduced by Robert Peel in London in 1829. We have apparently forgotten what the alternative was.
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So San Francisco has a long history of being poorly lead.
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