Chapter One

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Chapter One

• The History of Law Enforcement

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Define cop

• Cop is a slang term for a Law Enforcement
  Officer
• Cops are cool.

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Police Activities

• Community Relations
• School Resource Officer
• First Aid / First Responder
• S.W.A.T.
• Dispatch
• Civil Process

• Traffic Enforcement
• K-9
• Patrol
• Investigations
• Drug Enforcement, Homicide, Family Crimes, Sex
  Crimes, Homeland Security, Gang Enforcement
• Search Rescue
• Corrections

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Define Justice

• What is right and fair.
• A standard of fairness where it is judged whether
  each person is rewarded what he/she is due.
• Who determines what is right and fair?

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Which comes first, Laws or Morality?

• Morality
• As people grow, they develop feelings that
  certain actions are right or wrong. These
  feelings are created by parents, school,
  religion, country, friends, and others. These
  ideas about duties and ethics we will refer to as
  morality, although many refer to these feelings
  as a conscience.

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Discretion

• Laws that are not widely enforced!!!!!!!
• Polygamy
• Jay Walking
• Curfew
• Some traffic laws
• Speeding, Improper turns, Vehicle conditions
• Civil Disputes
• Juvenile Runaways

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Why arent they Enforced

• Lack of public consensus that the law should be
  enforced.
• Widespread violation
• Limited manpower
• Low priorities.

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The word Police

• Greek word polis which means city or state.

POLICE
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History of Law Enforcement

• The Normans (Believed that crimes were committed
  against the state.)

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The Code of Hammurabi

• The first set of written laws.
• Started In 2000 B.C

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Rome

• Was the first non-military police force
  established in the city

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England started many traditions

• The watch ward system.
• Sir Robert Peel
• Judge Henry fielding (started the bow street
  runners.)
• The Magna Charta.
• The statute of Winchester was the first attempt
  to organize systematic police System.

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Sir Robert Peel

• He was a politician and an aristocrat
• Believes regarding law enforcement
• Sir Robert Peels nine principals of policing
• Quoted The police are are the public and the
  public are the police.

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The United States

• Does the United States have a Federal or national
  Police?
• The first federal agency was the U. S. Marshals
• Who was the first state agency formed ?(Texas
  Rangers)
• Posse Comitatus. A group of able bodied men who
  would respond to a violation of the law when
  called upon.
• The Connecticut compromise was useful in
  completing the writing of the U.S constitution.
• The bill of rights. Amendments.
• The fourth!!!
• Unreasonable Search and Seizure
• Miranda Vs. Arizona. Know as your rights When
  you are arrested, or in custody and being
  interrogated.