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What led to the creation of the first professionally organized police forces in the United
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way to save money by transferring to the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the “collective good''

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The first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838. ... These merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring to the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the “collective good.”

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