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As populations grew and informal institutions of socialization and social control—such as the family, schools, and the church—decreased in effectiveness, police became increasingly necessary. However, no uniform worldwide system of policing ever emerged.
In fact, the U.S. police force is a relatively modern invention, sparked by changing notions of public order, driven in turn by economics and politics, according to Gary Potter, a crime historian...
Police - Law Enforcement, US History, Reforms: The United States inherited England’s Anglo-Saxon common law and its system of social obligation, sheriffs, constables, watchmen, and stipendiary justice.
Police - Law Enforcement, Reforms, History: Understood broadly as a deliberate undertaking to enforce common standards within a community and to protect it from internal predators, policing is much older than the creation of a specialized armed force devoted to such a task.
“The police,” as a civil force charged with deterring crime, came to the United States from England and is generally associated with monarchy—“keeping the king’s peace”—which makes it surprising...
History of police and policing in the US and around the world. Evolution and key players in establishing police departments and gaining public trust.
The Origins of the Police. Sir Robert Peel is popularly credited with the formation of the first modern municipal police force. But the Thames River Police did it first. Cartoon showing police brutality against the match makers' demonstration, 1871.
BLAIN: So generally speaking, we point to the period of the 1830s with the creation of the police force in the city of Boston. And this particular police force, we identify it as the first...
Uchida provides the most succinct review of US police history starting with colonial police systems before the American Revolution and leading up to modern times.
This essay reviews the historiography of modern policing, which can be divided into three strands. The first has aimed to revise earlier accounts identifying modern civil policing as the legacy of Robert Peel’s London Metropolitan Police.