> What, bullets couldn’t kill cops in 1787?
Actually no — but that’s because [modern] police didn’’t exist until sometime in the 1800s. [Mid, IIRC, but I’m not entirely certain.]
(Traditionally, going back further than the Magna Carta, the Sheriff was the law/peace enforcement officer.)
“Actually no — but that’s because [modern] police didn’’t exist until sometime in the 1800s. [Mid, IIRC, but I’m not entirely certain.]
(Traditionally, going back further than the Magna Carta, the Sheriff was the law/peace enforcement officer.)”
Finally, someone on this thread that knows their history.
Mostly true. Larger towns often had a full time constable, and citizens served mandatory shifts as watchmen under the constable. But as time went on people often shirked doing their shifts, and problems in cities grew as cities got larger. By 1749 Philadelphia set up a system of Wardens, who could hire full time watchmen. The new watchmen were paid a salary paid by a tax. That was the first urban police force in America, though it wasn’t called a police force yet.