stackyFACTSYou'd assume civilians would love heavily organized crime prevention, but they absolutely hated the idea.
You'd assume civilians would love heavily organized crime prevention, but they absolutely hated the idea. When Sir Robert Peel strictly established the Metropolitan Police in 1829, Londoners fiercely rebelled. They deeply viewed uniformed officers as a massive tyrannical threat to basic freedom, violently assuming these 'Bobbies' were just highly oppressive government spies heavily designed to crush political dissent rather than stop local pickpockets.
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