In the United States, it is common for marginalized groups to perceive the police as oppressors, rather than protectors or enforcers of the law, due to the statistically disproportionate number of minority incarcerations. The first use of the term in the American press was in 1872 when the Chicago Tribune reported the beating of a civilian who was under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station. And police brutality is becoming one of our most 'venerated institutions!' Boys are bruised by their ferocity, women insulted by their ruffianism and that which brutality has done, perjury denies, and magisterial stupidity suffers to go unpunished. Scarcely a week passes without their committing some offence which disgusts everybody but the magistrates. The term 'police brutality' was first used in Britain in the mid-19th century, by The Puppet-Show magazine(a short-lived rival to Punch) in September 1848, when they wrote: Early records suggest that labor strikes were the first large-scale incidents of police brutality in the United States, including events like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the 1912 Lawrence textile strike, the Ludlow massacre of 1914, the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and the Hanapepe massacre of 1924. By the 19th and early 20th centuries, many nations had established modern police departments. The origin of modern policing can be traced back to the 18th century in France. JSTOR ( February 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

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