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This 3 page paper provides an overview of policing today, how it came about, and what its future holds. Corruption and other problems are highlighted and the issue of recruitment is raised. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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fashion (1999). Prior to that period, early cities and towns possessed citizen patrols or paid watchmen (1999). From the patrols that sprung from early modern societies came
the organized forces of today. Clearly, the forces grew as did the cities. As the population increased, there would be more crime and a need for policing. Theories of organization,
and bureaucracy, were quickly embraced to develop the police forces as they are known today. Todays police forces are well respected, but there is corruption in some, and this has
drawn public attention. American policing in fact has become a significantly conflicted profession (Bratton, 2001). Indeed, from Los Angeles to New York City, and other major cities, police
forces have come under intense scrutiny and criticism in respect to things like corruption, racial profiling, racial insensitivity, brutality, and unresponsiveness to community concerns (2001). This may also be a
part of a society that embraces poltiical correctiness. Hwoever, professional incompetence has also been called into play (2001). There seems to have been a lack of attention to professionalism in
the police forces of the antion. Also today, policing is less of a family tradition than it once was (Bratton, 2001). It is true that there have been,
and still are, families who have a history of police associations where a father and son are cops or there are a myriad of uncles or brothers in the police
force as well as the fire department. And while the tradition is somewhat gone, there are other aspects of policing that have faded too. There now seems to be little
appreciation among young people regarding the complexity and variety police work can offer, or of skills developed in the course of police work, that can be transferred to other arenas
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