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Re:China pressured London police to arrest Tiananmen protest... by ohithereyou on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:16PM (#20319240)
Being able to lose the paper trail is a feature, not a bug, so a system like that would never be implemented.

The police exist to protect the property and station of those in power. It's why New York City was able to function without a police department until the 1840s while the New York Fire Department can trace its history back to the 1640s.

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Re:China pressured London police to arrest Tiananmen protest... by MagnumOpus on Monday July 01, 2019 @02:36PM (#20328339)
New York had 180 police officers (marshals and local policemen, and before that, night watchmen) way before the NYPD was established - they were just not organised in one big hierarchy because most crime was local before the mid-19th century immigration wave.
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