Modern policing was set up to protect the powerful from a "criminal underclass."

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A video essay by Lewis Waller about​ the roots of today's police state in 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham's views on criminality, codified with the establishment of London's Metropolitan Police.

Synthesising archival footage, primary sources and original writing, Waller argues that the modern police state is rooted in an almost wilful misunderstanding of the root economic causes of criminality, and the will of the powerful to protect themselves.

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