Trends in Policing

Since the founding of this country, to the wild west, and up to the present, the agenda of the policing bodies have been clear: to uphold and enforce the laws of our society. Of course the way they do this today had undergone changes from the first police forces of early America, law enforcement has seen trends come and go. Law enforcement is divided into three major eras throughout history. These eras are the political …showed first 75 words of 2326 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2326 total…the advocacy of the ‘third wave’ of major law enforcement reform. The third wave is now. The question is, will it bury us or carry us boldly forward into the twenty-first century?” Tafoya (1990, p. 15) Works Cited Klockars, C.B. The Idea of Police. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1985 Roberg, R.R. and Kuykendall, J. Police and Society. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1993. Tafoya, W.L. “The Future of Policing.” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (January 1990): 13-17.