Or labour history back further...in fact, I specifically want you to look at Europe ~1790-1855 around when the craft guilds collapsed and mass protests started happening.
Police, as we know them today, were literally created in this period in response to these crowds of lower-to-middle class workers who were disrupting society.
Police, as we know them today, were literally created in this period in response to these crowds of lower-to-middle class workers who were disrupting society.
They had to be because the armies that were sent in were ordered to shoot people in these crowds...and you had things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre