Policing: The Essentials
First Edition
Learning Objectives
- Examine the English roots of American policing.
- Describe how slave patrols and watch groups evolved into formal police agencies in colonial America.
- Examine the ways that politics influenced American policing during the political era.
- Explain how the adoption of technology and actions by police reformers changed American policing during the reform era.
- Discuss the strategies used by some police agencies to strengthen and in some cases build strong relationships between the police and the public during the community/problem-solving era.
- Identify how the terrorist attacks on 9/11 increased the use of intelligence by American police agencies during the Homeland Security era.