Community Policing History

The world is a scary and dangerous place filled with thieves,murders, and bank robbers that terrorize the citys. The only manner to control what happens when people who decide to be thieves, murders, and bank robbers would be to have a group of individuals that solely dedicated their themselves to stopping people like that. We call poeple like that police men, individuals that take up the challenge of keeping order when things get bad. During the colonial days the towns would be taken care of by volunteers that would rely on night watch, volunteers in the town that would pick a night and would watch out for the people in the colonies as they did different things at night. But that never really worked because many times the volunteers would

This brought back one of Peele’s principles which involves creating a more involved relationship with the community and this in turn resulted in the community assisting the police in deterring crime. This era is focusing on building relationships and showing that the police care about the

Anglo-Saxons believed honor was important because this is the code the warriors lived by, and the warriors chose to battle with their ‘brothers’ and sacrifice their lives, rather than come back with the deaths of their fellow warriors on their hands. Beowulf is integrated

Policing has been a part of America for many decades. In fact, policing was known to exist prior to 1066, the year of the Normandy Invasion of Britain. Throughout the years policing has been a complicated and ongoing progress. The people of England did not have a stabilized policing standard and were often responsible for protecting and serving themselves. As early as the 1600s the Colonial America introduced the English styles of policing; citizens were responsible for monitoring community members’ behavior. Early constables and sheriffs were with the increased rate of crime and developed a ‘sort’ in community policing known as “watch and ward.” Later throughout history in the early 1700s policing became an

Since the dawn of human kind, there has been some form of policing; whether that policing is based on taking revenge or the maintenance of public order and upholding the laws of the land. Although 200 years have passed, policing policies fundamentally has not changed. In this essay, I will be writing on early policing before the 19th century, policing in the 19th century, how policing evolved in America, policing now, and then compare the similarities and differences between today’s policing policies and those of the 19th century.

In reviewing Peel’s Principles of Law Enforcement, the first principle listed states, “The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder as an alternative to the repression of crime and disorder by military force and severity of legal punishment.” This principle basically means that the police are in place to prevent crime from happening with the use of military style enforcement, and to punish such criminals swiftly and severely by legal means. This relates to community policing today in that the police are in place to curb criminal behavior and maintain order in the community.

In every community, there's some type of law enforcement that carries a strong role of enforcing the law and protecting the community. Law enforcement is an old concept that has been existent in multiple shapes and forms since early civilizations. There are many ways to learn about early policing and how it was introduced to colonial America. This paper tells how different civilizations, especially that of England, shaped law enforcement in the United States.

But still, there are similarities between the Anglo-Saxon Era and the modern times. The Anglo-Saxon had chieftains, who led men to military expeditions, which is similar with the generals of the modern time. They also had the Mead Halls, which is the home for the society’s king, which is similar with Malacanang Palace(Philippines) or the White House(US). But the Anglo-Saxons had freedom in not showing up warrants, which is different from the present time for warrants, that are still required as of today, are needed to prove that they authorized people from the government. As of to the laws of the present time that are encoded in thick books, the Anglo-Saxons’ laws were written in the vernacular. But the Anglo-Saxons had a feudal system, which is likely present till now. It is the system for people, who were found guilty, are set to a monetary value for their lives from imprisonment. It is the same with the current punishment of today, the only difference is that, wealth and status matter to Anglo-Saxons while to the present times, not

Early American policing strategies were based on the British model. Law enforcement was not organized until 1200 A.D. offenders were pursued by an organized posse. If offenders were caught they

The Anglo-Saxons weren’t completely barbaric, but they weren’t completely peaceful, either. They didn’t come into England and instantly ruled, they needed to get rid of other groups before they could be a major power. If it wasn’t for King Alfred Wessex, also known as King Alfred the Great, who led the Anglo-Saxons against the Danes, or Vikings, until the country had a true sense of unity. After this, they were particularly peaceful. According to Beowulf, an Old English epic poem, the leader’s responsibility was to keep order and enforce laws.

Policing is a very difficult, complex and dynamic field of endeavor that is always evolves as hard lessons teach us what we need to know about what works and what don’t work. There are three different Era’s in America’s policing: The Political Era, The Reform Era, and The Community Problem Solving Era. A lot has changed in the way that policing works over the years in the United States.

Sir Robert Peel's principles and Community Policing go hand in hand and share the same concepts and goals in policing. One of the distinct similarities between Peel's approach and Community Policing is that prevention of crimes is the number one priority. I believe that Peel felt morals played an important role in effective policing. It is important that police officers think things through and have the best interests in mind before making decisions.

Our police system derives from the system our ancestors used in England. From this system we derive concepts of limited police authority, local control, & fragmented justice system that began in Anglo-Saxon England & continued until 19th century. In this system, community was divided into groups of 10 men who were responsible for ensuring that conduct of group was appropriate; if any laws were broken, these men were to ensure that offender appeared in court 10 of these groups were organized into larger group overseen by constables (who later

The United States Police model traces back to the British Model of Policing. Originating in the 1200s, British law enforcement started as organized posses. At the time if a man heard a victim cry out he joined the posse and helped track the criminal. Typically, leaders called shire reeve (county leaders) or comes stabuli (mounted officers) led the efforts. The world sheriff traces back to shire reeve and constable back to comes stabuli. Small numbers of mounted officers were employed which meant that there were not numerous enough to handle everything handled by today’s law enforcement. This system created many feuds among competing posses. Public executions, often including torture, were common, but trials were rare.

Police forces or Law enforcers have been used for centuries all around the world but America took particular interest in the English’s policing system. America’s policing ideas and process began