...Criminal Justice Practices: Past, Present, and Future Evaluation Paper In today’s society the world relies heavily on policing within their community’ citizens around the world want to feel safe, some as they walk the streets during the day and others while they sleep in their beds at night. Once upon a time citizens felt a great deal safer than they do today. People were not afraid to leave their homes and take strolls through the neighborhood at night, whenever they felt like walking to get some fresh air, thanks to the police. The policing throughout the city and in the neighborhood s made citizens feel safe, people were not afraid to leave their homes and sit outside on their front porches. However, as time began to change the world, policing changed as well. In this paper this author will evaluate the past, present and future trends in the interface between components of the criminal justice system and criminal justice connections with surrounding society which involves policing in the United States of America. Sometimes it’s better to let the things in the past, stay in the past but not when it comes to policing, back in the late 1800s and early 1900s police made people feel safe within their community. Police officers would walk the streets patrolling the neighborhood, standing on street corners talking to the neighbors in the community and actually getting to...
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...Police History Throughout the years, the United States has maintained a strong federal and state policy system, and because of this America has strong police history. When policing first began, colonists pursued the English style of policing. English style of policing consisted of monitoring the community on behaviors, morals, and civil obligations instead of criminal issues. Citizens carried out these policing responsibilities and were referred to as civic duties. There was no training or pay offered for these services. Wealthier people who didn't want to serve began to pay others to do their duties for them. Policing has continued to change in a positive way for America. (NY Region, 2014) In 1658 Philadelphia offered compensation for citizens for their service, and wardens employed watchmen. Watchmen's responsibilities were increased, and they were offered a salary as well. Motoring became a priority when towns and villages were formed and crime increased. Colonies began a system of sheriff's similar to the traditional policing in the English countryside. The sheriff's patrolled the community, and they also collected taxes and served court papers for a small fee. These sheriff's weren't too worried about crime being committed. (Davis, 2009) As time went on, policing focused more on crime prevention rather than crime detection and punishment for the crime that was committed. In the 1840's, guidelines improved relations between the community and the...
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...Community Policing Briarcliffe College Professor Toohey 12/17/14 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime. Throughout this reading you will get the full concept of “Community Policing” and how it benefits us civilians as a society. LITERATURE REVIEW This section of the essay consists of a grouped summary of published sources that I will be presenting, that I will be using for my paper, you will read about the pros of community policing such sources will be Wycoff and Skogan (1993), McElroy et al (1993), The United States National Institute of Justice (1992), and Bayley (1989). I chose these sources because all these people were all involved with police field. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS On December 17, 1996 the resolution was further amended to expand the Community Policing Task Force from 9 to 15 members. On November 4, 1997 the resolution was further amended (Resolution 73916) to create the Community Policing Advisory Board (CPAB). In 2004, Oakland voters approved Measure Y, he Violence Prevention and Public Safety Act which influenced how Oakland handled community policing and violence suppression. On April 13, 2005 Oakland adopted Resolution 79235. This resolution reiterated Resolution 72727...
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...Policing In America In this paper I am going to identify and define the US government and policing organizations throughout the US and how they both impact of this relationship on the American Society as a whole. The government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. This government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and their various powers are delineated in the U.S. Constitution; the powers are specified in greater detail in laws enacted by Congress. Self-policing, a form of self-regulation, is the process whereby an organization is asked, or volunteers, to monitor its own adherence to legal, ethical, or safety standards, rather than have an outside, independent agency such as a governmental entity monitor and enforce those standards. Self-policing attempts may fail, due to the conflict of interest in asking any organization to police itself. If the public becomes aware of this failure, independent organization is often given the duty of policing them, sometimes with highly punitive measures taken against the organization. The results can be disastrous, such as a military with no external, independent oversight, which may commit human rights violations against the public. Not all businesses will voluntarily meet best practice standards, leaving some users exposed. Example: Self-regulation for online child...
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...Purpose and Organization of Policing in the United States Customer Inserts His/ Her Name Customer Inserts Grade Course Customer Inserts Tutor’s Name 24,07,2012 Organization and Purpose of Policing in the United States Policing in the US is civilian and is financed and managed by local governments. Most of the law enforcement agencies in the US are local, and a few represent special jurisdictions like university police and park police. Other agencies include state agencies and federal agencies. The majority of the police personnel work for local agencies, while the remaining work for federal law enforcement and special jurisdiction agencies. The major constituents of United States policing are both local, and they include departments of municipal police in the towns, villages, and counties. These two agencies are characterized by their size as they are small, and the fact that they are independent of one another (Eterno & Das, 2011). There is no hierarchy in policing among and between agencies. It only applies to individual agencies and not between agencies. Police usually perform their duties in the fields, mainly at the local and state stages. They do not need direct supervision (Conser, Paynich & Gingerich, 2012). Most of the duties performed by the police are undercover duties that entail making of low profile judgments. Most of these judgments do not require any accountings or arrest. Information in police departments is decentralized, and...
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...Police history plays an important role in today’s policing styles in the nation. Some individuals thinking policing styles and the history is based off of television shows and movies that are released which in reality is not true to a certain extent. “Up until the last two hundred years, most societies relied on individual citizens and communities to ensure that laws were upheld and criminals were apprehended (Grant and Terry, 2012).” After many years, societies and communities upheld this responsibility and implemented effective ways to enforce the law and maintain order. This is where law enforcement was originated after the Code of Hammurabi took place and soon England formed law enforcements based on individuals and tribal justice. After the collapse of the England law enforcement, in the early nineteenth century Sir Robert Peel became an important person on having an impact on American policing which has been used until this day. Sir Robert Peel served as Home Secretary in 1828 in which he wanted to set law enforcement in the city which later would be London Metropolitan Police. He served in “Ireland for many years and successfully organized the Royal Irish Constabulary, Peel was keen to reform the way in which law was enforce in England and create a new police force for the city of London (Grant and Terry, 2012).” By 1829, parliament passed the London Metropolitan Act in which it provided funds for establishing 1,000 police officer force and strict standards of discipline...
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...Running head: Community Policing 3 Community policing is a law enforcement strategy imposed to develop a better relationship between the police and the community. This philosophy is a joint effort between law enforcement and its community to identify problems and mutually search for solutions. This form of policing is widespread throughout the law enforcement community and is adaptable by all police agency types and sizes. It has become an increasingly popular alternative to what many policy administrators perceive as the failure of traditional policing to deal effectively with street crime, especially crimes, especially crimes of violence and drug trafficking. Although the concept is defined in varying ways and its ability to meet its goals remains largely untested, community policing has gained widespread acceptance. Many people would argue that the focus of Neighborhood Policing is simple problem solving. Instead, community policing allows law enforcement to get back to the principles upon which it was founded, to integrate itself once again into the fabric of the community so that the people come to the police for counsel and help before a serious problem arises, not after the fact. Community policing is a pro-active strategy that emphasizes community partnerships and focuses more on prevention of crime that on cleaning it up. Community policing holds the key to more effective policing. If the police are to adopt a new strategy, the...
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...Assignment # 1 Evidence-Based Policing Abstract [This paper talks about evidence based-policing. I describe evidence based-policing and discuss and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of evidence-based policing. I also discuss about examples of where evidenced based policing has been utilized and summarize the impact and consequences. This paper explains a great deal of information with evidence-based policing and how it has evolved.] Evidence-based policing is “The use of the best available research on the outcomes of police work to implement guidelines and evaluate agencies, units and officers” (Schmallager, 2011 pg.157). Evidence based policing uses research into everyday police procedures to evaluate current practices and to guide officers and police executives in future decision making, (Schmallager, 2011 pg 158). Evidence-based policing has been dated back to the discovery of police officers. Countries have done tests on different areas to gather more information concerning that area. For example, in Britain, the government invested heavily in police resources. However, they did not establish how to obtain best value the money in deploying those resources. Even today, evidenced-based policing is gaining traction and has been called the single “most powerful force for change” in policing today, (Schmallager, 2011 pg. 159). The organization of American law enforcement has been called the most complex in the world. There are three major legislative and judicial...
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...review 1. Early policing efforts were for the most part performed by: (pg. 97) * Volunteers 2. The governor of each colony hired a ____ in each county to oversee the formal aspects of law enforcement, such as selecting juries and managing jails and prisons. (pg. 97) * Sheriff 3. Early police officers likely gained their positions as a result of: (pg. 98) * Political connections 4. Many of our American policing institutions have their roots in _______________ tradition. (pg. 97) * English 5. The patronage system is associated with which era of policing? (pg. 98) * Political 6. All of the following were recommendations of the Wickersham Commission: (pg. 99) * 2 areas in need of reform: 1.) police brutality; 2.) “the corrupting influence of politics.” * This reform should come about through higher personnel standards, centralized police administrations, and the increased use of technology 7. Who is known as "the father of modern police administration?" (pg. 99) * August Vollmer 8. The community era of policing began in the year: (pg. 101) * 1968 9. The third era in American policing, the ____, may have started with several government initiatives, including the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act. (pg. 101) * Community era 10. Attempting to stop crimes before they are committed is a form of ____ policing. (pg. 101) * Proactive...
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...The future of policing Jennifer Picard CJS/210 08/24/2014 Michael Crumpler The future of policing Many police officers believe that 20 years from now some of them will be able to operate much of the things they do today. They will have the advance technology, and the operating concepts which are driving the significant changes in the day to day operations. There is also many of the police officers who will have the personal education, and to build the internal support which will include changes in transitioning to the shared technical platforms, and the leveraging of technologies. This will then give the criminals new technology that will become available. The one key to the future of policing will not be the technology. It will be the ways which police forces will adapt to the technology to their needs. There is also the technology that will be used to predict a crime before it happens. This will help lessen the crime rates before they get out of hand. This will also reduce the agencies costs. The predictive-policing models by the police department builds, and enhances the promise of the new intelligence led policing with this new technology, new business process, and new algorithms, the predictive policing is based on the information based patrol, and the rapid response. It is supported by the preposition of assets, and the proactive, and the strategy, and police. This is the predictive policing which promises measurable results, includes the crime reduction. The more...
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...Week Eight Assignment: Community and Problem-Solving Policing Community and Problem-Solving Policing Shawn Morris Axia College There are three main topics of policing that we have among us today which are Community policing, problem-solving policing and federal government’s integration into community policing that all work together as one to keep our streets safe and secure. In recent years, the philosophy of community-oriented policing has gained a significant position in American law enforcement procedures (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1999). This process has come to be known as the problem-solving process of policing. These problem-solving strategies focus on crime generators and hot spots that plague law enforcement agencies in the United States (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1999). There are many ways to reduce these hot spots with community programs in policing. This could include neighborhood watch groups and local business owners to control the rate of crime in the community. This increases surveillance within the community and cuts down on the number of police in these areas. The citizens in these communities and local business owners can report the findings to the local police for further investigation. Why focus on hot spots? Residential locations can generate as much as 85 percent of the repeat calls for service. Moreover, research indicates that in many communities, more than 50 percent of the calls for service come from only 10 percent of...
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...Through the history of policing, law enforcement has adapted and overcome major obstacles to be at the level they are today. The very first officers on the streets carried no radios, didn’t have vehicles to drive around, carried no weapon, and had very little, if any professional training (Grant and Terry, 2012). If the history of policing is known it can help better understand where we’re at today and learn from the mistakes that were made previously. The history of policing will help us better understand why certain negative situations still remain in law enforcement although many have been through multiple reforms to correct the problem (Miller, 2000). One man, Sir Robert Peel is responsible for the direction of modern day policing and started the first modern police force. Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police Force based out of Scotland Yard. This force was the first recognized modern day police force in history. Before 1829 policing was simply citizens with no training or equipment trying to attain order in their town. With population growth and urbanization this old style of policing quickly fell apart and Sir Robert Peel introduced the first police force (Grant and Terry, 2012). His focus was on crime prevention, being proactive in law enforcement rather than reactive. Sir Robert Peel developed the Peelian principles which were used to define an ethical police force (Grant and Terry, 2012). These principles are what policing was and still is based...
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...Introduction to Criminal Justice Professor James Jackson Semester Assignment: Community Policing Community policing has become a very important and very necessary part of policing and protecting our communities. The concept has been in place for many years. It is actually part of one of the main events in policing reform that occurred between 1960 and the present time. This was actually brought about because of many problems, including questions about the police treatment of minorities and why they were not effective. The Rodney King and Bryant Allen case most notably. Two African American men were videotaped by an observer being beaten by police officers helped to change the face of police. The radical changes that occurred because of this made way for much needed reform, community policing, which has been a tool for effective policing. Our text describes community policing as “a law enforcement program that seeks to integrate officers into the local community to reduce crime and gain good community relations. Community policing typically involves personalized service and decentralized policing, citizen empowerment, and an effort to reduce community fear of crime, disorder, and decay” (pg. 165). Community policing is how the police work with the community to protect the citizens while doing their jobs “effective and efficiently”. Overall, the concept of community policing seems like such a great idea for the citizens being served, as well as the police officers,...
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...Early Roots in Policing AJS/502 March 14, 2013 Abstract: Early policing was an unorganized concept throughout civilization as rules and laws attempted to be by use armies of various kingdoms and other countries. Over the course of time a thought emerged that a more formal policing of the citizens could be accomplished by the creation of a police model that could free up military personnel while establishing law and order throughout areas with the premise that citizens could be coerced into believing that arrest would be the deterrent while protecting the public at large. This assignment will look at the early roots of policing, a man with a vision that changed the way of thinking that modernized policing in the 1800’s and how the connection is made to the present day, and the challenges and other ways policing is conducted. While history shows us that policing up to the 1820’s in England was an affair of money that was the policing policy of the day. If people were wealthy, they were far more protected from criminal activity than the poor. Although it can be said that policing did have some results that...
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...first, set up to answer similar challenges to the Gendarmerie in France, was the Royal Irish Constabulary model. It was close to the state military model, but distinctively styled as part of the civil power of the state and subordinated to the Magistracy. The Irish model was subsequently exported to Britain’s colonies and became the basis of forces such as the Indian Police Service. The Metropolitan Police was consciously created as a local force with a uniform that was deliberately different from the military and a mission that focused on prevention of crime rather than the repression of disorder. This state civilian model became the basis for all UK forces on the mainland and the principal influence on the development of East Coast US policing in the 1840s. As the three models have developed and evolved in different political systems over the years since 1800, they have both diverged and converged in various ways....
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