Black People : How many of you remember growing up and folks used to say. The police took him in the paddy wagon?

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I was reading some slaves narratives and one of the slaves referenced paddy roller.
Well the term crossed over from slavery. The patrols during those times were the police patrollers that would beat slaves for reading, praying or singing. Project Gutenberg in Germany has many good e-books and history readings.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28973/28973-h/28973-h.htm

An' she sed dat dey use to have meetings an' sing and pray an' th' ol' paddy rollers would hear dem, so to keep th' sound from goin' out, slaves would[12]put a great big iron pot at the door, an' you know some times dey would fer git to put ol' pot dar an' the paddy rollers would come an' horse whip every las' one of 'em, jes cause poor souls were praying to God to free 'em from dat awful bondage.

https://www.*******************/define.php?term=paddy roller

paddy roller
(1) An iron wagon with iron wheels that carried a cage filled with prisoners, or escaped slaves back in ante-bellum days. (2) A group of men who retrieved escaped slaves from the plantations in the South.

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Slave patrols called patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers, by the slaves, were organized groups of white men who monitored and enforced discipline upon black slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police slaves, especially runaways and defiant slaves.

When was the police force created in America?
The police were officially created in 1822.
The idea of professional policing was taken up by Sir Robert Peel when he became Home Secretary in 1822. Peel's Metropolitan Police Act 1829 established a full-time, professional and centrally-organised police force for the greater London area known as the Metropolitan Police.

When did police departments start?

In 1838, the city of Boston established the first American police force, followed by New York City in 1845, Albany, NY and Chicago in 1851, New Orleans and Cincinnati in 1853, Philadelphia in 1855, and Newark, NJ and Baltimore in 1857 (Harring 1983, Lundman 1980; Lynch 1984).Jun 25, 2013

What is the main purpose of the police force?
The purpose of the police service is to uphold the law fairly and firmly; to prevent crime; to pursue and bring to justice those who break the law; to keep the Queen's peace; to protect, help and reassure the community; and to be seen to do this with integrity, common sense and sound judgement.
 

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