#No, US policing doesn’t trace its roots to heinous slave patrols
“#No, US policing doesn’t trace its roots to heinous slave patrols” There’s a storyline in vogue among those who would defund the cops that claims that modern policing grew out of the vile squads that hunted runaway slaves. “From slave patrols to traffic stops. We can’t reform this,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) recently admonished. It’s a…