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CJ 205 Module Five Practice Activity Template History of Policing in America
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CJ 205 Module Five Practice Activity Template History of Policing in America
To complete this template, replace the bracketed text with the relevant
information.
Describe major policing events or evolutions in American policing during each
era. Write three or more sentences in each cell where a response is
required.
American Policing: American Policing: American Policing:
The Colonial Experience Eighteenth and Nineteenth Twentieth and Twenty-First
Centuries Centuries
The North: The Watch The Urban Experience Policing from 1900 to 1960
The Watch System: In the Establishment of Formal Reform Era: The early
northern colonies, particularly Police Departments: The first twentieth century saw
in cities like Boston and New formal police department in significant reforms aimed at
York, the watch system was the United States was reducing corruption and
established. This system established in Boston in increasing the efficiency of
involved community 1838, followed by New York police forces. This period
members volunteering or City in 1845. These included the introduction of
being assigned to patrol the departments were modeled civil service exams for police
streets at night to prevent after the London officers and the establishment
crime and Metropolitan Police and of police academies.
disorder.Constables. marked the beginning of Technological Advancements,
Constables were also modern policing in urban such as the use of
appointed to oversee the areas. Professionalization: automobiles, radios, and
watchmen and handle minor The late nineteenth century fingerprinting technology
legal matters. They played a saw efforts to professionalize revolutionized policing
crucial role in maintaining the police force, including the during this time.
order and enforcing local introduction of uniforms,
laws. training programs, and the
use of technology like
telegraphs for
communication.
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