CRMJ 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wickersham Commission, Speakeasy, Watts Riots
5 Oct 2018
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It was the need to arouse the public and establish confidence in the government: there was a call to reduce corruption, waste and fraud and a desire to place professional people in public service positions. Free government from the influence of machine politics. Rise of civil service: the genesis of american professional policing is said to be associated with. August vollmer, the police chief of berkeley, california, from 1902-1932: volmer is often referred to as the father of professional policing in. Early policing: earliest methods of policing known as kin policing , family, clan or tribe enforced informal norms or adapted rules of conduct. The history of police: origin of criminal law can be traced to early english society, before the norman conquest in 1066 no regular police force existed, individuals would aid neighbors and protect the settlement from thieves and marauders. Ten things were called a hundred whose affairs were supervised by a constable.
