Intro to Policing

System of policing created by Sir Robert Peel for the London Metropolitian Police in 1829, in which officers were assigned to relatively small perm. post.

Sir Robert Peel for the London Metro. Police

1829

Weekly crime strategy meetings, featuring the latest computerized crime statistics and high stress brainstorming

The New York City police Department in the mid-1990s

An official assigned to keep the peace in the mutual pledge system in England

Fed. cabinet department est. in the aftermath of the terriost attacks of Sept. 11, 2001

Infamous Supreme court decision of 1857 ruling that slaves had no rights as citizens bc they were considered property.

A method developed in early England for citizens to summons assistance from fellow members of the community.

A form of community self-protection developed by King Alfred the Great in the later part of the 19th century in England

King Alfred the Great

Commission created in 1968 to address the reasons for the riots of the 1960s

National Advisory Commission on civil disorder

Basic guidelines created by Sir Robert Peel for the London Metro. Police in 1829

A federal law passed in 1883 to est. a civil service system that tested, appointed, and promoted officers on a merit system

By the 1880's the private national detective agency had offices in nearby two dozen cities.

Latin for Civil administration

A common law desc. of the old hue and cry. If a crime spree occured or a dangerous criminal was in the area, the U.S frontier sheriff would call upon the posse comitatus: "the power of the country"