Something had to be done to prevent the increase in crime. Sir Robert Peel finally got his way when he convinced Parliament to create the London Metropolitan Police in 1829 (Walker & Katz, 2011). This formation was the beginning of the first organized police system. American style of policing used the same model and that model is based on three core elements. The three core elements are the mission, strategy, and organizational structure of police.
He began shifting the Department’s strategy from a reactive, efforts-based approach to a proactive, results-based approach. He focused on preventing crime before it began by sending more officers out on patrol rather than having officers sit in offices waiting to respond to 911 calls. He followed the “broken windows” theory and his police force went after “quality of life” misdemeanors with the belief that enforcing such misdemeanors would lead to a reduction in more serious crimes as well. In addition to pushing officers to be more proactive in the fight against crime, he introduced new performance measures that monitored managers’ plans for action and such action’s results. Prior to these measures, and in other police organizations across the country, work had been gauged in terms of effort (e.g., how many 911 calls were answered).
The Model Penal Code: Bringing Order to Chaos The purpose of the MPC was to bring about order to the chaos that was American criminal law. It was not the first attempt to codify American criminal law, nor the most ambitious. It was, however, the most successful. To truly appreciate the scope of the MPC, you must understand its historical context. Criminal law arrived in the US in the form of common law, brought by the colonists from their native European, African, and Asian homelands (Robinson, 2007).
Peel’s New Police was but one element of a body of changes reforming not just the Criminal Law, but the entire Criminal Justice System, including imprisonment and transportation, and also general criminal procedure. It is understandable that a change agent of Peel should be chosen to oversee the creation of a new structured Police Force. History had judged Sir Robert PEEL to be one of England’s great reformers, a claim evidenced by a cursory look at the changes he brought about during his term as Home Secretary in the early
Since this act was introduced, there seems to be a significant change into the cause of crime and how the police are dealing with it. The police reform act 2002 was introduced to improve things like the conduct of police forces, police officers and other people who carry out police related functions. This act also created the roles of the PCSO’s and amended police powers and provided powers for non-police officers relating to anti-social behaviour. PCSO’s, have the power to issue fixed penalty notices for traffic offences, littering and dog offences. They can require your name and address when they believe a person has committed a crime/offence.
The history shows us the many reforms and which ones had actually worked. Sir Robert Peel This all goes back to the English Heritage. They introduced a system called the criminal justice system in which we apply our laws against criminals today. Of the many laws that they created, others amongst them were the English common law, the high valued placed on individual rights, forms of punishment and the court systems, and the different police agencies. There were high values placed on individual liberty and governmental authority which are embodied in our bill of rights today.
Statute of Westminster involved everyday citizens in policing and preventing crime. This statute required citizens to help the police in the apprehension and prevention of crime. If the citizens did not help then they were subject to fines. The laws that were laid out early in history have affected today's security system because each new improvement builds on the system before it. The people who designed the system would take the best from the one prior and add in things that they thought would be beneficial.
Justin Galarza JUS-104 Charlie Pyeatt October 2, 2014 Historical Development of Policing The history of policing dates many thousands years ago and Great Britain is believed to be where the concept of policing originated from (Deflem, 2002). Policing has undergone many developments and advancements to the way it is today. Originally, policing was handled by able bodied and strong men and the initial reasons why policing existed was to protect the property of their people and communities. Today, the roles played by police have greatly diversified (Deflem, 2002). Initially, policing was a voluntary activity and one would join it provided they had the interest of other people in their heart.
1. I do believe CRASH is an important unit that needed to be created in order to understand how gangs worked from the inside. 2. There should not be a different recruiting or supervision of a unit like this because working a dangerous job like this calls for people that have been involved with crime in their past and already have an understanding of what it is like. These certain people also call for a great amount of street smarts to go along with their professionalism.
A number of researchers have argued that many crime problems can be addressed more efficiently if police officers focus their attention on these deviant places. The appeal of focusing limited resources on a small number of high-activity crime places is straightforward. If crime can be prevented at these problem places, then police will be well positioned to lower citywide crime rates. In Policing Problem Places, Anthony Braga and David Weisburd make the case that hot spots policing is an effective approach to crime prevention that should be engaged by police departments in the United States and other countries. There is a strong and growing body of rigorous scientific evidence that the police can control crime hot spots without simply displacing crime problems to other places.