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RE: Fake Experience, Fake Reality (Part Two)
The world did not have cops until late in the 19th century. Why did it take 10,000 years after cities started? Clue: It wasn't public demand. It was for public control and protection of an elite at taxpayer's expense. Cops started out with a bad reputation but thru govt. ed and the media that was changed by propaganda. Radio Pictures/RKO made my favorite movies because of real dialogue and scripts that showed it like it was, e.g., the cops in "Maltese Falcon".
This is factually incorrect as the first modern police force was created in London in 1829. 1829 is not late in the 19th Century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police?oldformat=true#In_London
There are examples of people doing many of the same things as modern police forces. For example, in ancient Athens publicly owned slaves were used for crowd control; Roman vigiles apprehended thieves, runaway slaves and were supported by Urban Cohorts which were heavy anti-riot troops; you had the British constables and Santa Hermandades in Spain during Medieval Europe; Paris created a police force in 1667.
In summation, your claim that there were no cops before the late 19th century is factually wrong on its date for modern police force and factually wrong on the existence of such offices prior the late 19th Century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police?oldformat=true
Then explain the voluntary policing organizations such as vigilantes and night-watchmen.
Edit: I use a Chrome extension that reformats Wikipedia into a reader friendly format. It is called Wikiwand. However, as not everyone has Wikiwand I wanted to change a source from Wikiwand to Wikipedia.
I stand corrected. Sorry, I misremembered. Put in context, how important is this compared to the 10 millennia I cited?
It doesn't really affect your argument except for that one part which wasn't the main thesis.