I would hardly call Warmoth "idealistic."
The Metropolitan Police were just as much an unofficially official militia as a police force. To quote Crucible of Reconstruction: "Much more so than the state militia or the constabulary, the Metropolitan Police served as the military arm of both Governor Warmoth and Governor Kellogg throughout Reconstruction." (159-160)
— Nov 03, 2018 11:11AM
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