Criminal Justice Trends In Law Enforcement

Criminal Justice Trends

Criminal Justice Trends
Law Enforcement
Law enforcement has been around for many years now what would be do without are fallow officers. There is many things that in the past officers did not have that now we are privileged with having. Never did officer in the past decades think we would be as advanced as we are now. Before crimes were solved without all the updated technology that has been created. Now that we are able to have things at our fingertips it’s a lot easier to get bad guys off the street. In the following paragraphs I will be going over the past and history of law enforcement. Also the present of law enforcement what we have now that was not accessible to officers or to the criminal
Under kin policing, the family of the offended individual was expected to assume responsibility for justice by capturing, branding, or mutilating the offender. To be sure, there were also theocratic institutions (religious temples, magic rituals, grand viziers), but these were probably used as a system of appeals (sanctuary, refuge) and for purposes not associated with justice. (Memorial Fund, 2009). So policing started in the 1600’s and it was called kin policing/ night watch. The officer worked part time and was not paid. At this point it was made to make sure to keep many colonist in place because many out brakes were going on again the king and their needed to be structure. The officer did not have any protection and only had a baton to protect himself from ever being attacked. Then in the 1700’s Boston hires first full time paid law enforcement. This was a huge step because many were working for free and now being hired on and being paid after a 100 years. Following in the 1800’s to be exact in 1835 Texas creates the Texas Ranger
In 2002 the department of homeland security is formed to lead the united nation to secure America. A To mention that officers now carry bullet proof vests to protect them from gunshot wounds to the upper body. There is many things that can protect an officer now from gunshot wounds. Also now we have many different agency that deal with different areas in the criminal justice system. We can have a couple pointed out our state police officers that deal with city limit crimes, then FBI that deals with the federal crimes, and the US Marshalls that hunt for those who fled the US and are wanted back in the US to go against a judge for the crime committed. In the previous eras we did not have different agency to look over different subject that we have now that are able to address one subject at a time instead of it all being piled on once agency. It is a great thing to have different agency to commit to one specific subject. They are able to help each other out or just step on each other way its best to stay grounded in their jurisdiction and that’s what it should be like. Crimes at times are able to be solved a lot faster some times when more than on agency is involved. There are many resource now that can detect DNA, from a criminal just from being swabbed in a prison. All this is stored in a data base that keeps records of the criminal and person committed crime. And it can be detected