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A Brief History of Policing in the United States

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The 21-page companion study guide includes discussion questions for police training, research topics for college classes, and community exercises for workshops and town hall meetings. Topics include:

• Part 1: Early Beginnings
  • The American model
  • The role of policing in a democracy
  • Informal social control
  • Citizen patrols
  • Dueling & honor
  • The rise of a formal criminal justice system
  • Westward expansion - sheriffs, citizen posses, and guns
  • The legacy of slavery and Reconstruction
  • KKK - vigilantism and hate groups
• Part 2: The Dawn of the 20th Century
  • Professionalizing policing
  • The Reform Movement:
    • Drug law enforcement
    • Prohibition, organized crime, and flouting the law
    • Toward a juvenile justice system
  • Immigration and poverty
  • Scientific management
  • The Stock Market Crash
  • The union movement & police organizations
  • Transportation and communication - the impact of the patrol car, the telephone, and the police radio
  • Traffic control
  • The legacy of J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI
• Part 3: A Rising Tide of Violence
  • Juvenile delinquency
  • The surge in violent crime at the hands of strangers in the late Sixties
    • The Kitty Genovese case
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • Civil disturbances: the long, hot summer
  • The gay rights movement
  • Campus protests
  • Nixon's War on Drugs
  • Police/Community Relations Programs
  • Crime Prevention Programs
• Part 4: Innovations in Policing
  • The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study
  • Broken Windows and the role of social and physical disorder
  • Early foot patrol experiments in Flint and Newark
  • Community Policing
  • Problem-Solving Policing
  • COMSTAT and crime mapping
  • The problem of wrongful arrest and conviction
  • Civilianization
  • Targeting drug demand, forfeiture, and RICO
  • The victims' rights movement
• Part 5: Contemporary Challenges
  • The impact of Rodney King
  • The Violence Against Women Act and the focus on domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking
  • White-collar crime
  • New drug problems - from date rape drugs to Ecstasy to meth to oxycontin
  • Serial and spree killers and profiling
  • Crime scene analysis
  • Columbine and school safety
  • Racial profiling
  • Domestic terrorism
  • The impact of 9/11 on policing
  • Homeland Security
  • Security and privacy issues
  • Racial profiling
  • Crime coverage in the media
  • Online child predators
  • Engaging the community, policing leadership, and protecting everyone

Written, produced, voiced and edited by Bonnie Bucqueroux - copyright 2007

Policing.com was created by Bonnie Bucqueroux, former Associate Director of the National Center for Community Policing at Michigan State University. Author, trainer, educator, she continues to write and consult in the field.