Chapter 1: American Policing

American Policing

The most important lesson of chapter 1, tells how the American police service have changed over time, and why it cannot be understood properly if it is examine alone. For example, in a crime scene, an officer has to gather his information from the witness otherwise he or she would never solve the crime, however, in working with the communities make their job a lot easier to find suspects. Many cases are still out there unsolved because they law enforcements can’t do the job alone. At the beginning of the 20th century, cities were staggering under the burden of machine politic, corruption, crime, poverty, and exploitation of women and children by industry. The police was less involved because during this
A method that is very useful in all the big cities in the United States. In additions state and local police department have created their website, where anyone can excess and find out anything about a particular city’s background on policing and important informations that are crime related. Compstat and community policing, another critical method invented which is used world wide, and is the best tool to reduce criminal activities, and other crime related. Used by military daily in conducting their operations. Modern technology now used by the local law enforcement departments. Crime analysis provide law enforcements with meaningful tools with which to combat crime. One of the best technique. It is designed to be a perpetual and continuous process and to assist law enforcement executives in making more informed decisions in their response to crime. With the tools, the law enforcement have today our policing is the best in the world. The number of law enforcement is important in getting the job, however, with the modern technology they have it wouldn’t really matter how many law enforcement we have patrolling and
Profession, originate from the Latin pro (fort) and fateri (confess), meaning faith. However, the book given a collection of similar definitions that usually approximate the following: 1) an organize body of theoretically grounded knowledge, 2) advance study, 3) a code of ethics, 4) prestige, 5) standards of admission, 6) a professional association and, 7) a service ideal which may also be stated alternatively. The bottom line is whether policing is in fact, a “profession”. Becker stated in the debate as to whether a particular type of work can be called a