Law Enforcement

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officer may be looking for a possum in the bushes outside the local post office, for fear that it may have rabies and try and bite someone. Each day is different and surprising to each individual officer(Knudson).
According to the book, Opportunities in and Criminal Justice Careers, The Peelion Act of 150 years ago set forth principals that are still pertinent today. They are set down here because they remain A basic tenet of the profession. The police must be stable, efficient, and organized along military lines, the police must be under control of the government, the absence of crime will best prove the efficiency of police, the distribution of crime news is essential, the deployment of police strength, both by time and area, is essential. No quality is more indispensable to a police officer than a perfect command of temper; a quiet, determined police officer has more effect than a violent one does, good appearance commands respect, the securing and training of proper ...

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until by 1870, all cities had full-time police departments. During the remainder of the nineteenth century, a number of efforts were made to reform and improve policing both in the city and in the rural areas. Civil service enactment proved helpful, and some forces moved gradually to merit employment and less political interference. Police training schools emerges in the early 1900's, and although quite modest, they set a standard that by the mid-twentieth century had become generally accepted. During the 1920's came the prophetic leadership of Chief August Vollmer at Berkeley; he advertised in the University of California's student newspaper for young men to serve on the police ...

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