America Quote by Steve Stoute

What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols.…

— Opal Tometi

“the first real organized policing systems in America arguably began in the South with slave patrols. The patrols were armed and uniformed, and typically…

— Radley Balko

“One reason we cannot forget our law enforcement legacy is that the people we serve and protect cannot forget it, either. So we must…

— Historica Press

“For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression.”

— David Grann

People don't know that the very reason the police were made was to oversee slaves; they would be called overseers, and if a slave…

— Robert Glasper

“For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression. Instead, citizens…

— David Grann

Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues,…

— Radley Balko

No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and…

— Radley Balko

Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that…

— Immortal Technique

“At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the police, since its earliest origins, is to be a…

— Alex Vitale

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.”

— Ann Medlock