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What city did not have a police force until 1857?

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In 1857, Republican Party reformers in the New York State capital of Albany created a new Metropolitan police force and abolished the Municipal police, as part of their effort to rein in the Democratic Party-controlled New York City government.

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Baltimore is the only one I know of that got a PD that year

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