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West of Mississippi, episodic war with Native Americans
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Sir Robert Peel formed the Metropolitan Police Force in 1829
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New York City started the anti-abolition riots in 1834
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Both Boston and New York City copied what London had done and created, in stops and starts, their own professional police forces in the 1840s and 1850s
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The Congress began appropriating money for tribal police agencies
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The Pendleton Act was passed, it established the U.S. Civil Service Commission to enforce its provisions
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In November 1986, it emerged that the White House had secretly sold arms to Iran in an effort to win the freedom of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and then diverted money from the sales to Nicaraguan rebels known as the Contras.
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The federal government announced that the frontier was closed and six states were later admitted to the union.
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The Lexow Committee was established by the New York Senate to examine police corruption in New York City Police Department
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The New York Bureau of Municipal Research was formed
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Vollmer established formalized police training, and encouraged officers to take college classes
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The International City Manager Association was founded and the University of Michigan offered a degree in municipal administration
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The first Red Scare occurred in the beginning of World War I. The Russian Revolution of 1917 saw the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, topple the Romanov dynasty, kicking off the rise of the communist party
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Last official battle with Native Americans
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The Sedition Act of 1918 targeted people who criticized the government, monitoring radicals and labor union leaders with the threat of deportation.
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The first Red Scare climaxed in 1919 and 1920, when United States Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer ordered the Palmer raids, a series of violent law-enforcement raids targeting leftist radicals and anarchists.
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The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Prohibition Amendment was adopted in the 1920s and made the making, selling, possessing, and consuming of alcoholic drinks illegal
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The first lie detector test was invented in Boston Police Department
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In the early 1930s, liquor was illegal, but people in Nebraska found ways to buy or make their own alcohol.
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Following World War II (1939-45), the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political and economic clashes known as the Cold War.
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U.S. during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, which intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s
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In 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested a nuclear bomb and communist forces led by Mao Zedong took control of China.
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Tension was pretty high and protest were breaking out and shortly after that is when John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr were assassinated
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The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history, marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, political assassinations and the emerging "generation gap"
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The Birmingham church bombing took place on September 15, 1963, when a bomb exploded before Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama a church with Black congregation that also served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders
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The 1967 Detroit Riots, were the most violent riots in U.S. history, burning and looting ended after five days, 43 people were dead, 342 injured, nearly 1,400 buildings had been burned and some 7,000 National Guard and U.S. Army troops had been called in
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delegates flowed into the International Amphitheatre to nominate a Democratic Party presidential candidate, tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War and the political status quo
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In 1970, and Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act that same year. The Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act followed two years later.
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The oil crisis of the late 1970s drew further attention to the issue of conservation.
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On May 4, National Guardsmen shot four student demonstrators at an antiwar rally at Kent State University in Ohio known as the Kent State Shooting. Ten days later, police officers killed two black student protestors at Mississippi’s Jackson State
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In November 1986, it emerged that the White House had secretly sold arms to Iran in an effort to win the freedom of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and then diverted money from the sales to Nicaraguan rebels known as the Contras.
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On March 3, 1991, paroled felon Rodney King led police on a high-speed chase through the streets of Los Angeles County before eventually surrendering. Intoxicated and uncooperative, King resisted arrest and was brutally beaten by police officers
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A series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist network al-Qaeda against the United States
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Police Brutality has been on the rise, and it is making it harder for some officers to represent themselves as trust worthy officers
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Eric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.
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Michael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.
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Tamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was "probably a juvenile" pointing a gun that was "probably fake" at passers by.
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Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot at and wounded.
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George Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and held down by police officers, one of whom had his knee on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.
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. Sadly, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021 left the region even more unstable than it was before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Daunte Wright was shot and killed in Brooklyn Center. After being pulled over for a traffic violation, the police told Wright he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant. He broke free and tried to get in his car, at which point an officer shot him
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Policing in 2022 is frightening
