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Police typically are responsible for maintaining public order and safety, enforcing the law, and preventing, detecting, and investigating criminal activities. These functions are known as policing. Police are often also entrusted with various licensing and regulatory activities.
Police - Law Enforcement, Reforms, History: Understood broadly as a deliberate undertaking to enforce common standards within a community and to protect it from internal predators, policing is much older than the creation of a specialized armed force devoted to such a task.
Police - Crime Fighting, Law Enforcement, Reform: When J. Edgar Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924, he laid the groundwork for a strategy that would make the FBI one of the most prestigious police organizations in the world.
Britannica Dictionary definition of POLICE. [plural] : the people or the department of people who enforce laws, investigate crimes, and make arrests. (The) Police blocked the street to clear a path for the parade.
Police - Decentralization, Organizations, Reform: The United States has what may be the most decentralized police system in the world, characterized by an extraordinary degree of duplication and conflicting jurisdiction.
police brutality in the United States, the unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by U.S. police officers. Forms of police brutality have ranged from assault and battery (e.g., beatings) to mayhem, torture, and murder.
Broken windows theory had an enormous impact on police policy throughout the 1990s and remained influential into the 21st century. Perhaps the most notable application of the theory was in New York City under the direction of Police Commissioner William Bratton.
Team policing was introduced in the early 1970s in New York City. Patterned after earlier efforts in Britain, the approach emphasized the delivery of round-the-clock decentralized patrol services by a team of officers, usually under the direction of a sergeant or lieutenant, in a specific…
Police - Law Enforcement, US History, Reforms: The United States inherited England’s Anglo-Saxon common law and its system of social obligation, sheriffs, constables, watchmen, and stipendiary justice.
Police - Racial Profiling, Discrimination, Reform: The relationships between police and ethnic and racial minorities present some of the more enduring and complex problems in policing throughout the world. Such relationships can be harmonious, but they often are problematic.