Learning Objectives

  1. Summarize the influence of early English policing on policing and the increasing professionalization of policing in the United States over time.
  2. Identify how the nature of policing in the United States has changed over time.
  3. Evaluate the contributions of August Vollmer and the International Association of Chiefs of Police to policing in the United States.
  4. Identify the police techniques and technologies that are still in use today.
  5. Review the role of women and minorities in early policing.
  6. Identify the sources and consequences of the unrest in policing during the 1960s and 1970s.
  7. Summarize how policing has become more than just law enforcement, and offer ideas as to the direction of the future of policing in the United States.