CRJU 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: London Metropolitan University, Feudalism, United States Coast Guard
Ch 4 History of Police
Stage 1: The Earliest Form of Policing
• Feudalism- citizen control (pre-1700s)
• Citizens obeyed rules of nobles in exchange for use of land
− Tithing
• 10 families responsible for each other
• All men 12 and over
• Tithing man- the hue ad y
• All received sanctions
− Hundred
• 10 tithings grouped in one hundred
• Constable appointed by nobility
• Start of extradition
− Shire
• Group of 10 hundreds into shire
• Chief law enforcement agent: Shire Reeve
• Power of posse comitatus (power of the community)
Feudalism ends
Stage 2: The watch system: Post-Feudalism
• Paishes, illages et, e shaed esposiility of the ath
• Upaid olutees alked The Beat
• Hue and Cry: yell, whistle
• Community members respond
Stage 3: The first organized police force (1829)
• London Metropolitan Police
• Sir Robert Peel
− Qualifications
• 5’ height
• Male
• Less than 35 years old
− Weapon
• Billy club
− Uniform
• Bobbies named after Sir Robert Peel
• Public Response
• Dislike of taking away control
American Periods of Municipal Policing: Political/Corruption Era
• 1950s and before: the political/corruption era
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