[PDF] A Historical Perspective On Active Citizens Law Enforcement Groups eBook

Author : Steve Asher
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Crime prevention
ISBN :

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This thesis is a historical perspective on active citizens' law enforcement groups. The research traces the origin and development of active community crime control in America from its beginning to the present. Following a review of the available literature, issues and controversies surrounding active community crime control are examined. The data utilized in this study was obtained through a literature review in which numerous sources where considered in order to trace the emergence and development of active community control within the United States. Based on the results of the review of the literature, three conclusions were reached. First, active community crime control programs have grown in popularity since the 1960's. Currently, community crime control is endorsed by citizens, police, and scholars. Secondly, measuring the effect of community crime control programs has proven to be inexact because of difficulties present in the gathering and analysis of crime data. However, within the past decade the quality of data and research has improved. Thirdly, there is an absence of professional training for leaders of crime prevention groups. Without adequate training for both the block leaders and crime control practitioners, community crime control programs will fail to achieve their optimum potential. (Theses).

Author : Tomas C. Mijares
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 0398094470

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This book provides knowledge on the history of law enforcement and its development and explains the factors leading to the evolution of the modern police officer. The first chapter provides information about the book’s purpose and methods of data collection and analysis. The next two chapters summarize ancient forms of law enforcement in Europe and the Middle East. Chapters Four through Ten describe the eras of American history from the early settlements to the modern metropolitan areas and how law enforcement evolved to serve and protect through these eras. Chapters Eleven and Twelve explain the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and how this legislation affected law enforcement through increased availability of equipment and opportunities for education for all personnel in the criminal justice system. Chapters Thirteen through Fifteen describe specific problems that have developed throughout modern American society and how law enforcement has responded to these problems. Chapter Sixteen summarizes the evolution of police technology and how it affects the most visible member of policing: the patrol officer. Chapter Seventeen reviews the recent criticism and politicization of law enforcement. The final chapter provides conclusions that can be reached about the past and recommendations for improvement in the future. Whether the reader is a college student preparing to enter a career in criminal justice or a seasoned professional, this book will help avoid systemic mistakes of the past. For politicians, journalists, educators, and other people whose professions take them close to law enforcement personnel, this book will explain the evolution of those who have chosen to serve and protect and how they have gone from captured slaves to caring professionals.

Author : Duchess Harris
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1532173385

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The History of Law Enforcement examines all aspects of law enforcement in the United States. It discusses the history behind US law enforcement, how different law enforcement agencies operate, and how police impact their surrounding communities. Features include a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Bryan Vila
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1999-05-30
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Contains ninety-five primary documents, grouped into seven different time periods, that chronicle the history and development of police policy and the role of police in American society.

Author : Laurence Armand French
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1538102048

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America’s first known system of law enforcement was established more than 350 years ago. Today law enforcement faces issues such as racial discrimination, use of force, and Body Worn Camera (BWC) scrutiny. But the birth and development of the American police can be traced to a multitude of historical, legal and political-economic conditions. In The History of Policing America: From Militias and Military to the Law Enforcement of Today, Laurence Armand French traces how and why law enforcement agencies evolved and became permanent agencies; looking logically through history and offering potential steps forward that could make a difference without triggering unconstructive backlash. From the establishment of the New World to the establishment of the Colonial Militia; from emergence of the Jim Crow Era to the emergence of the National Guard; from the creation of the U.S. Marshalls, federal law enforcement agencies, and state police agencies; this book traces the historical geo-political basis of policing in America and even looks at how certain events led to a call for a better trained, and subsequently armed, police, and the de facto militarization of law enforcement. The current controversy regarding policing in America has a long, historical background, and one that seems to repeat itself. The History of Policing America successfully portrays the long lived motto you can’t know who you are until you know where you’ve come from.

Author : Gregory Holcomb Umbach
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 081354906X

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In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-quarters of American police departments claim to embrace the strategy. But decades before the phrase was coined, the New York City Housing Authority Police Department (HAPD) had pioneered community-based crime-fighting strategies. The Last Neighborhood Cops reveals the forgotten history of the residents and cops who forged community policing in the public housing complexes of New York City during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a combination of poignant storytelling and historical analysis, Fritz Umbach draws on buried and confidential police records and voices of retired officers and older residents to help explore the rise and fall of the HAPD's community-based strategy, while questioning its tactical effectiveness. The result is a unique perspective on contemporary debates of community policing and historical developments chronicling the influence of poor and working-class populations on public policy making.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0309467136

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Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in policing that began to emerge in the 1960s because of social unrest, rising crime rates, and growing skepticism regarding the effectiveness of standard approaches to policing. In response, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, innovative police practices and policies that took a more proactive approach began to develop. This report uses the term "proactive policing" to refer to all policing strategies that have as one of their goals the prevention or reduction of crime and disorder and that are not reactive in terms of focusing primarily on uncovering ongoing crime or on investigating or responding to crimes once they have occurred. Proactive policing is distinguished from the everyday decisions of police officers to be proactive in specific situations and instead refers to a strategic decision by police agencies to use proactive police responses in a programmatic way to reduce crime. Today, proactive policing strategies are used widely in the United States. They are not isolated programs used by a select group of agencies but rather a set of ideas that have spread across the landscape of policing. Proactive Policing reviews the evidence and discusses the data and methodological gaps on: (1) the effects of different forms of proactive policing on crime; (2) whether they are applied in a discriminatory manner; (3) whether they are being used in a legal fashion; and (4) community reaction. This report offers a comprehensive evaluation of proactive policing that includes not only its crime prevention impacts but also its broader implications for justice and U.S. communities.