Allan Pinkerton - The Knights of Capitalism (Patreon)
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We're kicking off the new year by wrapping up our Policing series. Since we've spent the series discussing London's move from citizen policing to state-funded and state-operated law enforcement, let's talk about what happens when you get money into the mix. And there's no private police force more famous than the scourge of union workers and labor strikes, the Pinkerton Agency, the Knights of Capitalism.
But would you be surprised to learn that their founder was a progressive and an abolitionist, forced out the UK after his own activist work. How did a man like Allan Pinkerton found an organization that stood in direct contrast to his own history?