Chinese ‘Police Stations’ in Canada Amounts to the Presence of a Hostile Foreign Power in Our Front Yard

A Chinese state-media outlet lists this single-storey commercial building in Markham, Ont., as one of the overseas Chinese police stations in Canada. Michelle Hu/The Epoch Times

Commentary

According to popular wisdom, Sir Robert Peel created the first modern municipal police force in London in 1829. Yes, there were other law enforcement-type bodies well before that, but the idea of having an organized body of men (they were all men at first) to patrol the streets and investigate/prevent crime was new for the era.