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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses England's influence on American policing and what served as the major forces behind changes in policing. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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nature of certain populations made it necessary for the settlers to incorporate Britains approach to civilized behavior; when a Justice of the Peace was no longer a strong enough deterrent
for criminal activity, full-fledged policing began to take shape. Boston established Night Watch in 1636, New York Citys Shout and Rattle Watch was implemented in 1651 and Philadelphia created
ten separate patrol areas through the city in 1705 (Sabath, no date). As police departments grew in the United States they developed new means of policing which were thought
to be more effective. Most of the new police strategies were aimed at addressing crime including: patrol units and cars, rapid response, and investigative units. Policing went from
a system of walking beats to a process of covering larger areas by patrol cars. These policies and strategies resulted in police having less contact and conversation with residents
in the community (Borgquist et al, 2004). Social uprising of the 1960s stood as the major force that led to such changes
in American policing practices as the exclusionary rule, due process, procedural standardization, operational challenges and violent crime increase. Critics have readily argued, for example, the fact that constitutional amendments
four, five and six have lost their inherent meaning through severe judicial manipulation and favoritism. By utilizing the exclusionary rule in order to support such constitutional inconsistencies, the judicial
system as a whole has come to represent nothing more than a twisted and distorted depiction of what these three individual amendments were originally intended to set forth.
According to the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, the authority to seize private property rests squarely on the governments shoulders, regardless of whether
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