SLAVES. SERFS, AND CROFTERS.

THE ORIGINAL MISSION OF THE POLICE WAS TO SUPPRESS THOSE PERSONS WHO WERE CONTROLLED. 


THE UPPER CLASSES, THE RICH, AND THE POLITICALLY POWERFUL, WERE MOSTLY EXEMPT FROM THIS CONTROL. 


IT WAS STATED IN A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE SUPPRESSION OF BLACK PERSONS' FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT THAT THE ORIGIN OF AMERICAN POLICING WAS WITH SLAVE PATROLS.

 

THIS IS AN EXAGGERATION BUT THE OTHER CONTROLLING PATROLS IN OTHER COUNTRIES WERE PROBABLY FOCUSED ON SLAVES, SERFS, AND CROFTERS. 


CONTEMPORARY POLICE HAVE EXPANDED THE PARAMETERS REGARDING WHO WAS TO BE CONTROLLED AND PATROLLED.