Intro to Policing Textbook notes pt 1 (pt 2)

Henry Fielding

• Deputy megistrate position of bow street court in 1748 

• Primary mission was to spread information about crimes and other disorderliness 

• Created bow street runners 

• Main tasks to prevent crimes arrests/charge for crime investigate crimes and working toward social justice

Sir John Fielding

• Cofounded bow street runners 

• Appointed as magistrate after henry fielding 

• Was blind yet still worked within policing

• His philosophy was simple: to eliminate future crimes catch them early. He would pour his resources into young children to mold them into positive young individuals and role models so that they would not choose the path of crime.

Henry Fielding

• Deputy megistrate position of bow street court in 1748 

• Primary mission was to spread information about crimes and other disorderliness 

• Created bow street runners 

• Main tasks to prevent crimes arrests/charge for crime investigate crimes and working toward social justice

Sir John Fielding

• Cofounded bow street runners 

• Appointed as magistrate after henry fielding 

• Was blind yet still worked within policing

• His philosophy was simple: to eliminate future crimes catch them early. He would pour his resources into young children to mold them into positive young individuals and role models so that they would not choose the path of crime.

Patrick Colquhoun

• Created a force of 50 men to decrease crime rates of the Thames River for commerce, private properties, and trade

• British government passed the marine police bill of july 1800 

• Marine Police Bill made colquhoun’s force a public police force

Sir Robert Peel

• Not a police officer or magistrate 

• He made it his life’s passion to motivate the British government to pass the famous police act called the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829.

• This act established the first formalized police force of London. It replaced the disorganized police force of the Watchmen, Constable, and other private police forces. 

• Officers became uniformed and paid 

• Community policing was born

Peele’s 9 Principals

• The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.

• The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent on public approval of police actions.

• Police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.

• The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionally to the necessity of the use of physical force.

• Police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.

• Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient.

• Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

• Police should always direct their action strictly toward their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.

• The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.

August Vollmer

• Known as father of american police professionalism

• Advocated higher education for police officers 

• Wrote the wickersham commission report on police (1931): a lot of police corruption so he led that report

• Equipped his entire police department with bikes, motorcycles, and patrol cars and implemented radios in vehicles

• First chief to hire African American and female police officers

O.W. Wilson

• Wanted officers to have a college education 

• Patrol officer under Vollmer at berkeley police department 

• Founder of the law enforcement code of ethics 

• Pushed psychological testing requirements for police officers 

• Rebuilt chicago police department 

• Author of “police administration”

Alice Stebbins Wells and Lola Baldwin

• First two recorded police women 

• Alice with lapd and lol with portland bureau of police 

• Focused on social work 

• Wells created the international police women's association 

• Alice lost her husband to duty and they asked what they could do and she wanted to take his place. 

• Paved way for women in a male dominated field

• Lola worked with a lot of runaway juveniles