Future Policing

Future of Policing

Future of Policing

This paper will center on the current trend that affects policing in the twenty-first century. I will also focus on any anticipated critical issues that could affect policing in the future and changes that are needed to effectively address those critical issues.

American policing has revolutionized enormously since the 1800’s. Policing for America began with the colonist bringing the rural community police methods that observed the scattered parishes, and while under this type of configuration one man from that specific county was responsible for serving a term of one-year as constable. During that time policing worked well but as towns became more colonized and the blossom of prosperity resulted into illegal wrongdoings. Even though, American policing was configured as a quasi-military with the task to prevent crime and being conspicuous while on patrol was an pure imitation of London’s contemporary policing, the organization of government control over the police force was different from London’s patrol the United States were self-govern and with this policing became more time-consuming, dangerous, and less attractive (Walker, S., & Katz, C. M. 2011).

The three eras American policing comprised of political, professional, and conflicting pressures and those eras ranged from the 1830 are to 1900’s. The old conventional eras of policing consisted of police patrolling without any proper training and scarcely having a primary education (Walker, S., & Katz, C. M. 2011). Walking the beat in that era by foot to resolve day-to-day unlawful disturbances with no assistance of communication from superior, firearms, radios, patrol cars, computers, advancement of technology devices, and internet. As time has progress technology has blossom which has enable law enforcement agencies to tap into crime on different levels.

One of the trends that are currently affecting policing is demographic changes in population. The...