You're listening to a throwback edition of What's Ray Sain, recorded during the early development of the show.

If it sounds different, well, I used to do this whole damn thing on my own.

I've got a bigger team now, but these early episodes were made with love and are absolutely worth listening to.

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The podcast.

Here's a question for you.

How would you describe your lifetime of interactions with the police?

Positive, negative, neutral? I mean, really, how much interaction have you really had with the police?

Is it like TV? What do the police do for you? What have they done for you? What do you see?

What has been your lived experience with the police?

Whatever it is or has been frames your perception of the police.

So just ask that question to yourself. What have you really experienced from the police?

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gravy. You're listening to What's Ray saying, the podcast, to secure and control the origins of the police and the black experience coming up. I'm I'm I'm

The In the United States, modern policing emerged from two different places.

In the north, police departments first emerged in the 1830s, and by the 1880s, all major cities had police forces in place.

Now these modern police organizations shared some similar characteristics such as being publicly supported.

Having police as full-time employees and not community volunteers or work on a case by case basis. Police departments had

permanent and fixed rules and procedures that were not ad hoc. Employment as a police officer

was continuous, not part-time. And police departments were held accountable to a central governmental authority.

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