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Professional law enforcement agencies are a recent development historically, and for a long time were resisted as something out of an authoritarian dystopia. Policing was the job of amateurs and freelancers for much longer than it’s been a civil service bureaucracy. Even death investigation was, until recently, a side gig for the town doctor.

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Yep, and there are good reasons that policing was put into the hands of professional agencies.

London's self-proclaimed "Thief-Taker General" is a good example. A gang leader who made money through both committing and "solving" crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild

[jopsen → closeparen]

How is this relevant?

Human rights is a recent development, that does make them a bad idea? Or justify violations :)

The concept of a professional trained police force is well proven by now, I see no reason to question it :)

[closeparen → jopsen]

Parent said bounty hunting something out of a bad movie. So did institutional policing, at the time.

[geggam → closeparen]

Its almost like we outsourced our civic duties to hired guns