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https://www.governing.com/now/the-urban-conflicts-that-created-policing-in-america.html Modern policing began to emerge in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, influenced by the British model of policing established in 1829. The first organized publicly-funded professional full-time police services were established in Boston in 1838, New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854
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American public administration in the nineteenth century was consumed by a fixation
on the civil service and its central role in reducing partisanship and corruption. The
reformers of that period succeeded in building a foundation for honest government.
Without that basis, the professionalization of American public administration that was
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https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/progressive-era-to-new-era-1900-1929/prohibition-case-study-of-progressive-reform/ The “noble experiment” was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America
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https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/fifties/essays/anti-communism-1950s McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States which began during the start of the Cold War, that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. The term gets its name from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin.
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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. -
Policing in the 1970s was characterized by a rise in community involvement as officers started trying to solve crime with the help of average community members. Still, tensions were high after the 1960s, and in many places, this could escalate into violent altercations.
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Technological advancements helped predictive policing which proved to be a smart and strategic solution to preventing crime. Predictive policing can now use big data like social listening to recognize probable criminality.
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Law enforcement agencies' information-sharing networks have evolved to include counterterrorism and the adoption of an all-crimes approach, with the intent to strike a balance between criminal intelligence and intelligence related to terrorist threats. -
The Street Outreach Program enables organizations around the country to help young people out of homelessness and into safe shelter. To that end, the program promotes efforts by its grantees to build relationships between street outreach workers and runaway, homeless, and street youth. The War on drugs program in peoples opinion has failed.