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    Policing History

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    History of Policing During the late 1700s and early 1800s‚ a breakdown in social control led to disorder‚ crime‚ riots‚ and public health issues in England. The 1780 Gordon riots brought a 50-year debate on how to provide better public safety. One man fighting to improve law enforcement was the home secretary‚ Sir Robert Peel. In 1822‚ Peel’s first task as home secretary was to meet the demands of Parliament for a reform of the criminal laws. During this time of rising crime statistics‚ Peel

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    WHAT IS POLICING? This essay will describe policing‚ and the role that is carried out by a number of professionals and ordinary people in our society. It will briefly illustrate how they help to control social order in the community. It will briefly describe the profession of the police‚ and that of community police‚ security guards‚ customs officers‚ and bouncers‚ and how they have helped‚ and continue to help reduce crime‚ and attempt to maintain order in our society today. Policing is

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    THE HISTORY OF COMMUNITY POLICING The movement toward community policing has gained momentum in recent years as police and Community leaders search for more effective ways to promote public safety as well as enhance the quality of life in neighborhoods. The roots of community policing come from the civil rights movement in the 1960s.Even though its origin can be traced to this crisis in police-community relations‚ its development has been influenced by a wide variety

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    History of Policing The function of policing has played a considerable role in American history.  The policing occupation has worked toward protecting citizens’ rights and helping America to become the free nation it is today.  The United States of America is built from the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights‚ from this document we gather the rules of policing and make sure that every Americans rights are met. The evolutions of policing practices that officers have learned have changed American

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    Predictive Policing By Jamia Yant April 13th‚ 2012 In order to effectively compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets‚ we first have to look at exactly what information technology is available to police today. The term predictive policing is the name given to “any policing strategy or tactic that develops and uses information and advanced analysis

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    Community Policing History

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    History of Public Policing Community policing as it related to communication with the public has existed in some content of the early since the 1930’s (Fisher-Stewart‚ 2007). It was during the 1960’s with the focal point of the Civil Rights Era‚ that the police-citizen crisis began and research was initiated to ascertain the core of the problems involving policing and the community (American Law & Legal Information‚ n.d). It was is in response to the civil unrest that existed during this period

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    The History of American Policing America is a country of laws‚ without laws it would be complete chaos. But with all of the people that live in America you can’t expect everyone to follow the laws‚ and not everyone does. Ever since the beginning of this great country people have committed criminal acts. Way back when America was still a British colony we didn’t have anyone that was hired to keep everything in order. The first form of American law enforcement was the Night Watch System. How the

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    Police History Kenna Puckett CJA/214 October 20‚ 2014 Eric Crawford Police History Policing in the United States dates back to the 1800s‚ but the police of the modern world are much different from the first police that took patrol. The first patrols did not have cars or two-way radio communication‚ but they started off always evolving policing and law enforcement organizations. In our current time the government has a direct relationship with law enforcement which affects policing practices. Federal

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    Policing Policing aroused in the 1800’s; over 200 years ago it all started with a man on foot patrolling with no experience or legal weapons in hand to provide security to others. The average officer had little education and no training or experience; that was also not in the best of health. In the 1900’s‚ the average officer had a high school education and was predominantly male. Adhering to a police manual‚ the officers did not have laws in place for inappropriate conduct. The officers did

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    Future of Policing As a society in the United States continues to become more diverse and rely more on technology‚ advances in policing techniques and strategies must change and become more advanced as well. Which is why‚ out of the ten most important trends in policing the top three are that: “technology will increasingly dominate the economy and society”‚” mass migration will distribute the world’s population‚ creating new challenges for law enforcement in Western developed countries in terms of

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