Corrupt Sloppy System

There have been criminals on this earth since the beginning of man. Surprisingly law enforcement to manage and control these criminals is a relatively new occupation. Especially in the U.S, organized groups only started appearing in the early 1860s these groups were known as Night Watch. These american men were volunteers who weren't being paid so as you would assume they weren't very professional drinking and sleeping on the job. Some people would argue that the earliest groups of “law enforcement” were slave patrols. Also known as patrollers they would see to it that they would behave and do there job and to prevent uprising (very similar to current day riot squads). These unrestricted group of persons were very unprofessional and also had a reputation to be brutal. These …show more content…
A little fun fact the word sheriff actually comes from the british term shire-reeves wich was the oldest appointment of the english crown. Chiefs were appointed and held the responsibility of all activities of the police in the city and to make sure the goals and policies were met. This system was ten times more effective than the previous corrupt sloppy system so it started to be adopted nationwide. On the other side of the country in Los Angeles California almost a hundred years later more modern technologies and styles were emerging.Chief Roy E. Steckel started the first air patrol in 1931. Near this time border percussions started to become a focus of the L.A. Police Department, restricting anyone without legal U.S documentation from entering the U.S. There were 126 men and two boats assigned to regulate the Los Angeles stretch of the border in the 1930s compared to the estimated 22,000 men and women in 2012 survey. In 1910 the first female “Police Woman” was signed to the Los Angeles force. Another big part of law enforcement history is corrections. In 1890 some of the first industrial scale prisons started to