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This is the education requirement for the majority of the police departments
across the nation.
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No college, but at least a high
1 slave patrols 2
school degree or its equivalent
3 Frank Serpico 4 Calvin Coolidge
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, Historians and scholars indicate that what in the
slave patrols American South were the precursor to modern
highway patrol?
In the latter part of the ninth century, England's King
mutual pledge Alfred the Great established this form of community
self-protection.
This U.S. Supreme Court decision held that black
Dred Scott v. Sanford slaves could not sue in court for their freedom
because they were property, and not citizens.
Texas Rangers The first state police agency was this group.
Which Massachusetts governor fired all of the striking
Calvin Coolidge police officers during a Boston police strike and later
became president?
Volstead Act This law established National Prohibition in 1920
The duties of this group included lighting street
watchmen lamps, clearing garbage from streets, and putting out
fires.
This private policing agency thwarted the alleged
Pinkerton Agency "Baltimore Plot" to assassinate president-elect
Abraham Lincoln shortly before the civil war.
This figure created practices that started to
professionalize the U.S. police, including
August Vollmer
incorporating university education as part of police
training.
This was the director of the FBI from 1924-1972 when
J. Edgar Hoover
he died.
Developing modern W. Wilson is noted historically for this contribution to
management and modern policing.
administrative techniques