Content about events and struggles in what is now the United Kingdom.
![The Five Points district of lower Manhattan, painted by George Catlin in 1827. New York’s first free Black settlement, Five Points was also a destination for Irish immigrants and a focal point for the stormy collective life of the new working class. Cops were invented to gain control over neighborhoods and populations like this. Five points in New York, 1827 painted by George Catlin](https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/large/public/images/history/five_points_by_george_catlin_1827-bigger.jpg?itok=_0X5IxYu)
Origins of the police - David Whitehouse
Excellent text examining the creation of the first police forces, which took place in England and the US in just a few decades in the mid-19th…