In a time where police incompetence seems to be more prevalent every day, there needs to be a discussion of how law enforcement was never meant to 'protect and serve.' The Origins of Modern Policing In The South According to the NAACP, modern policing in the South extends from slave patrols, which began in the early 1700s, and they typically used excessive force in order to get slaves to behave as they desired. Slave patrols continued until the Civil War ended and the 13th amendment was passed in 1865. Once Black Codes were created and enacted that same year, however,
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