CRM 1300 Lecture 11: CRM 1300 - Lec 11
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Policing is a process or set off processes willfully directed towards the production of order and proffering assurances of safety and security. Throughout history, many agencies (mostly private) have been engaged in this set of functions. The modern public police service has only for a little while been one of the most important agencies involved in policing. The historical origins of the concept of police. The word police traditionally meant the maintenance of good market functioning. It was all of the activity that the government and private actors engaged to maintain the well function of markets. We thought that if we had prosperity and plenty, we would all be safe. The difficult birth of the public police. Once we started to think along those lines, people began to develop the idea for the creation of public police services who would be responsible for maintaining the political peace inside the nation state.