I can tell you are losing an argument when you start whining about me personally.
I honestly doubt you grew up with the kind of grinding poverty people deal with on the South Side or Harlem or East LA.
The slave patrols go back further than that.
Learn more about the history of Slave Patrols with our curator Chelsea Hansen
nleomf.org
The American South relied almost exclusively on slave labor and white Southerners lived in near constant fear of slave rebellions disrupting this economic status quo. As a result, these patrols were one of the earliest and most prolific forms of early policing in the South. The responsibility of patrols was straightforward—to control the movements and behaviors of enslaved populations. According to historian Gary Potter, slave patrols served three main functions.
“(1) to chase down, apprehend, and return to their owners, runaway slaves; (2) to provide a form of organized terror to deter slave revolts; and, (3) to maintain a form of discipline for slave-workers who were subject to summary justice, outside the law.”
Slave Patrols: An Early Form of American Policing - National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund