In 1908, the United States did something unprecedented in its history. It created a general purpose

investigative police branch for the Department of Justice. The federal government had law

enforcement organizations before, but they had very narrow missions. From its humble beginnings,

the FBI radically changed over the next several decades and became one of the most powerful

federal agencies. Learn more about the Federal Bureau of Investigation, how it was established

and how it's evolved on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. It's the most wonderful time.

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To understand why the Federal Bureau of Investigation was created, we need to go back to the country's founding to understand why such an agency never existed for the first 130 years

in the country's history.

The United States did not have a national police force before the FBI because of historical,

cultural, and constitutional factors that shaped the nation's approach to governance and law

enforcement. The U.S. Constitution establishes a federal system of government, with powers

divided between

the federal government and individual states. States are mostly responsible for law enforcement

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