Introduction To Policing

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English Roots

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Towns and cities would rely on watchman who performed night watch, they would watch for thieves and fires.

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Bow Street Runners

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Henry Fielding attracted dedicated officers to serve patrolling streets leading to London. First attempt at patrolling streets in London became known as Bow Street Runners.

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The New Police: London Metropolitan Police

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They were uniformed, resembling military oraganizations and adopted a military style, became a model for police forces worldwide. They were not immediately accepted population saw them as an occupying army.

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The Frontier

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This was the backwood area where outlaws and bandits would group together, this lacked police forces to people resorted to vigilantism (taking matters into one's own hands)

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The 20th Century

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Inventions like the telephone, automobiles, and radios impacted police because it gave them powers and high mobility and were able to maintain communication.

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Various Modeling of Policing

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Disorder: Respond to violence; Crime: Crime precedes creation such as recording every inccident that day and creating some map for next days patrol; Class: Ruling class vs. poor; Urban: Follow population growth. There is no one model of policing.

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The United States Riot Commission

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These riots occured because promises that had been made had not been fulfilled and they ended up ruining thier own neighborhoods, country started paying attention.

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Ominibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act

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Wanted to focus on 4 things: 1.Focus on professionalization of police, 2. Create standardized training, 3. Infuse policing with technical knowledge, 4. Involve the community.

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Wickersham Crime Commission

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Commissioned by the government they investigated the problems associated with Prohibition and decided lack of perfessionalism and criminal corruption so they introduced treatment and rehablitation.

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Science of Policing

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1974: Kansas City Preventative Patrol the idea was that when people see cops they feel more safe so they split up 15 districts 5 with 3 times as many cops, 5 with no cops, and 5 with same amount as normal and there was no change.
1981: Newark Foot Patrol the idea was for the police to ge tout of the patrol cars and get into the community.
1999:Weed and Seed was going into neighborhoods and taking out bad things, people, and planting programs, community got mad cause of to much control.
1998: Community Policing in Action was just trying to get the community involved.
2002:Reduce Gun Viol