Urban police forces originated partly to suppress class rebellion

Evidence

The “floating population” that was harassing the middle class was also challenging the industrial elites-not interactionally, but politically. The police force was created not merely to handle crime and disorder, but to control rebellion. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1119

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in how urban order institutions encode class control rather than neutral safety—parallels discussion of policing as infrastructure in other readings. — connects to: Nineteenth-century police functioned as municipal strikebreakers for management — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3285; Police can retaliate against mayors by refusing to police city events — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 365; Rights of assembly were won through struggle but then contained by new police forces. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1327