Robert Peel’s Metropolitan Police did not invent law-enforcement violence, but it transformed its meaning. In the 1830s, Henry Hetherington’s Poor Man’s Guardian framed police brutality as a crisis of state legitimacy, exposing how uniformed, centralised authority turned individual blows into political evidence of class oppression and democratic exclusion in Britain.
Who reported police brutality in the 1800s? Was there even a concept of police brutality in the early nineteenth century? I will show how the concept of police brutality was born in England in 1831.
Quem denunciava a brutalidade policial nos anos 1800s? Existia mesmo um conceito de brutalidade policial no início do século XIX? Então este artigo é o resultado de minha reflexão e pesquisa sobre essas questões e vou mostrar como o conceito de brutalidade policial nasceu na Inglaterra em 1831.