[Hugin]

What, bullets couldn’t kill cops in 1787?

[OneWingedShark]

> What, bullets couldn’t kill cops in 1787?

Actually no — but that’s because [modern] police didn’’t exist until sometime in the 1800s. [Mid, IIRC, but I’m not entirely certain.]
(Traditionally, going back further than the Magna Carta, the Sheriff was the law/peace enforcement officer.)