Chapter 2: Origins and Development of Law Enforcement

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Spoils System

When political party members will reward their supporters with government posts when they win the election.

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desire

The admiration that makes a job seem worthwhile.

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Code of Hammurabi

2200 BC: standardizes laws and punishments in Babylon.

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Statute of Winchester

1285: ________ establishes the watch and ward system in England.

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400 800

________: Law enforcement in England is based on traditional notions of individual justice and punishment.

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New Orleans

The ________ was the first to actively recruit African Americans.

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Order Maintenance

When there is a policing or regulating in a public area.

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Sports

________: African American and white people must have separate teams.

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police officer

A(n) ________ needs full control of their emotions more than anything else, because acting calmly and firmly requires more work than acting violently.

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Emperor Augustus

27 BC: Roman system of vigiles instituted by ________.

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Legalistic

This refers to policemen who give threats or actually arrest someone to control their behavior.

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African American police officer

The first ________ served in Washington, D.C.

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Restrooms

There must be separate restrooms at establishments and institutions for African American and white people.

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spoils system

It was created to abolish the ________ and reduce corruption in the government.

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2200 BC

Code of Hammurabi standardizes laws and punishments in Babylon

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1340 BC

Nile River Police established in Egypt

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510 BC

Romans establish the Praetorian Guard and Urban Court

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27 BC

Roman system of vigiles instituted by Emperor Augustus

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400-800

Law enforcement in England is based on traditional notions of individual justice and punishment

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899

System of shires, hundreds, and tithes is established by Alfred the Great

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1285

Statute of Winchester establishes the watch and ward system in England

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1326

Justices of the peace first appointed by the kind of England

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1748

Founding of the Bow Street Runners in London

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1829

Creation of the London Metropolitan Police

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Metropolitan Police Act

1829

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Bobbies

1856

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Plessy v. Ferguson

"Separate but equal"

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Interracial Marriage

An African American and white person are not allowed to get married

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Restrooms

There must be separate restrooms at establishments and institutions for African American and white people

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Sports

African American and white people must have separate teams

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Spoils System

When political party members will reward their supporters with government posts when they win the election

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Legalistic

This refers to policemen who give threats or actually arrest someone to control their behavior

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Order Maintenance

When there is a policing or regulating in a public area

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Faces of Reform

Early Leaders

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August Vollmer

Father of Police Professionalism

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Wilson

The protégé

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J. Edgar Hoover

The FBI

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1960s-

High school degree required

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1964 Law Enforcement Education Program

This was created to help educate more officers

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National Institute of Justice

The research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice

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Part I

Violent personal crimes

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Part II

Property crimes

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