Criminal Justice Timeline

  • First Court in North America

    First Court in North America

    The Massachusetts Bay Colony created the General Court to enforce the law.
  • First Police officer

    First Police officer

    First Uniformed police officer is in New York City
  • Day and Night Police Forces

    Day and Night Police Forces

    New York was the first to have day and night police forces
  • First State Prison

    First State Prison

    The first state prison opened in California it was a ship named Waban
  • Juvenile Facilities Made

    California law requires that counties maintain separate juvenile facilities
  • Creation of Secret Service

    Creation of Secret Service

    The Secret Service was created in the United Kingdom
  • Crime Reports

    Crime Reports

    The FBI implements the Uniform Crime report to survey crime
  • FBI

    The DOI becomes the FBI
  • Drug Court

    First drug court in Miama