ADMJ 0500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Broken Windows Theory, Crime Mapping, Community Policing
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Enforcing the law: only 10-20% of all police calls involve situations that actually require a law enforcement response. Providing services: 911, not always emergency but need police attention. Federal level: agencies have nationwide jurisdiction, but concentrate on specific crimes. U. s. secret service: protect current and former leaders and their families, investigate financial crimes. Marshals service: protects courts and court officers, transports federal prisoners, and seeks fugitives. Naval crime investigation service (ncis): conducts criminal and other investigations in support of the us navy and marine corps. State level: created to assist local police agencies, investigate criminal activities that crossed jurisdictional boundaries, provide law enforcement in rural areas that did not have local or county police agencies, to break strikes and control labor movements. Centralized: combines highway patrol with criminal investigations, assist local law enforcement on major cases, maintain a centralized id bureau and criminal records depository, and patrol state highways, pa state police was the first modern state police agency.