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Egon Bittners definition of what police do - ✔✔1. enforce laws
2. provide services
3.prevent crime
4. preserve the peace
Enforcing laws - ✔✔seek out and apprehend those who have violated the
law
providing services - ✔✔to serve and protect. to serve the community.
directing traffic performing emergency medical procedures, counseling
those involved in domestic disputes, providing directions to tourists and
finding lost children
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,Preventing crime - ✔✔limited basis police can prevent crime. quickest way
ti impact crime us with a well led and appropriately focused police force
Preserving the peace - ✔✔cops show up at a house party more likely that a
crime won't occur
Sir Robert "Bobbie" - ✔✔pushed the metropolitan police act forming the
London met police
Under peels discretion, the bobbies as the police were called, did not carry
any firearms and were assigned to specific areas aka beats
5 years later, working from peels model, Boston formed the first organized
police department consisting of 6 full time officers
Political Era 1840 to 1930 - ✔✔the recruitment and promotion of police
officers were intricately tied to the politics of the day 1840-1930
patronage system- spoils system
primary function: provide rands of social services to citizenry
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, Intimate with the community
Patrolling on foot in neighborhoods
Weakness: police brutality and corruption
Reform Era 1930-1980 - ✔✔George Wickersham- focused ib two areas if the
American Policing that needed to be reformed
1. police brutality
2. corrupting influence of politics
Function: crime control
tactics: patrolling neighborhoods in cars. rapid response to emergency calls
for service
weakness: riots, mistrust upon citizens
Distant with community
Proffessional Model - ✔✔A stele of policing advocated by August Vollmer
and OW Wilson that emphasized centralized police organizations
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