Bailey, I enjoyed reading your post as I am a history buff and you had some slightly different views than I did. Like you, I fully believe that Hoover helped promote professionalism in law enforce across the country. Before Hoover took over the FBI, it was just like many other law enforcement agencies with lazy, out of shape, and politically appointed employees. He changed this by firing ones that did not need to be there and required new hires to have background checks, fitness tests, and be educated in law and accounting (John Edgar Hoover, n.d.). This caused many other agencies to do similar things. You also mentioned the fingerprint database and the Uniform Crime Reports or UCR. Both of these innovations still help fight crime
