@HighlandLawyer@DrALJONES In the colonial era, in the northeast US, the constabulary was sometimes a rotating, mandatory public obligation, like jury duty is today. Although not without plenty of problems, that arrangement did help folks realize they were protecting their neighbors, would be protected by those same neighbors in another week or month, and prevented the development of an us/them mentality since one would quickly and frequently change from one side of the relationship to the other
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