[Spktyr]

No. Philadelphia Police Department was established in 1751. NYPD was established from the remains of several prior police agencies in 1845. Boston PD started in 1838. If you want to include the predecessor ‘watch’ organization or town guards (which was also pretty much all they had in most European countries at the time too), policing in America goes back to 1636.

[Carry_Okie]

Sounds like our sources disagree somewhat as to what constitutes a "police force." My source has the first police force in London in 1829, 1845 in America in NYC. Policing at that time was as much or more a patronage job than professional law enforcement. Policing as we know it today, really didn't get going until the 20th Century as a creature of the "progressive movement," not exactly the heritage I suspect you would like to cite.

Either way, for a hundred years after the Constitution was ratified, policing as we know it now was quite uncommon.