Essay On Police Policing

Police is one of the significant departments that protects the citizens, enforces laws, catches the criminals, and diminishes crimes. Throughout the history, governments have developed the police power, and they have increased the amount of departments in each cities. Policing in the United States also has changed through the eras, Political (1840s-1920s), Professional (1930s-1970s), and Community (1970-Present) eras. And each of these eras have its own aspects on the way of its legitimacy, function, organization, relationship, demand, tactics, and outcomes. The Political era (1840-1920s): The political era is called political because it was authorized by local politicians. During this era the police seemed to work for the mayor’s political party rather than for the citizens, and the mayor and the city council were in charge of selecting the police officers, although the police officers weren 't trained. Thus, the police were used and demanded by politicians to keep their power in position, and they were demand directly by the

The gist of this era was to enforce laws equally, the police should use new technology, personal procedures should be based on the merits, and fighting crimes (Cole, Smith, & DeJong, 2015:114). This era is a great change in the history of policing in America on the technology and transportation aspects. Thus, the high promotion of the usage of motorized patrols, efficient radio communication, and rapid responses through 911. As technology got more involved in the community, the police were demanded by a central dispatch through the radio from the number 911, as a result the uniform crime report became more efficient. The police became more crime fighters more than social servants, and the relationship with the community got reduced to avoid bias and corruption (Kozey,