History of Policing

In 1829, Robert Peel was able to persuade Parliament to create the London Metropolitan Police, Recognizing it as the first modern police (Walker & Katz, 2011). Today officers are still known as “Bobbie” in honor of Peel, according to Chapter 2 of our course reading. But he had three main elements that were involved such as mission, strategy, and organizational structure of the police these theories are as relevant today as they were in the 1800s. But as I read through different websites it states that Sir Peel had many theories that I based the modern day policing system on. Now the mission of the new police is crime prevention. He is also responsible in executing a strategy to have a preventive patrol. The idea is set to preserve a presence of the police throughout the community. Certainly, there is reason to believe that community policing has become less operative as crime has become more intricate.

Relationship between the U.S. government and policing organizations can be categorized on three different levels such as Federal, state and local. Every division has a set jurisdiction that they handle on their own before help is called. The State level has three Sub-levels of police: State Trooper, County Sheriff and Local/City Police. For example if the Federal government passes a law stating that police officers could no longer carry guns then that would really change how local police protected themselves. These organizations get their authority from Article 1 section 8 of the U.S. Constitution which guarantees Congress' control to regulate taxes and interstate business. State Troopers, also known as State Police and Highway Patrol, have dominion across the whole state but mostly patrol areas and plans that are maintained and ran by other State Level agencies, such as the Highways and State Government Buildings. Police monitor both county mandates and city ordinances. Every state is independent over their own state so each is run differently in regards to...