Technological Advances through Law Enforcement History: Good or Bad? Anyone who has turned on a television or has seen a police officer in his cruiser with a radar gun knows that there have been technological advances in law enforcement. But law enforcement technology has a longer history than many outside the industry realize. This paper will serve to give a brief history of the technologies that have changed the nature of policing, and attempt to determine whether those technologies helped or hindered law enforcement and policing. As the book To Protect and Serve: A History of Police in American by Robert C. Wadman and William Thomas Allison was not reasonably attainable for this paper, the next best source was used. That source is a review
