Police and the Community

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The paper examines the changing relationship between police and the community over the past 150 years in the U.S. The paper discusses the function of police to preserve public order and analyzes police power. The paper explores the impact of the Civil Rights Movement concerning issues of disparate treatment and police brutality and discusses police education and training in contemporary society with the aim of encouraging greater cooperation between the police and society.

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"By the 's traditional methods of preserving public order in the face of a burgeoning population, rapid urbanization and industrialization and a constant influx of immigrants, rendered traditional methods of preserving public order inadequate. The nation's cities were then policed by a handful of unpaid, untrained and unarmed sheriffs, aldermen, marshals, constables and night watchmen. This system of maintaining public order had functioned effectively in earlier decades when rates of serious crime were low and citizens had informal mechanisms for maintaining order."

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