a. Limited Authority
i. Jurisdiction: the right or authority of a particular agency
b. English Roots
i. Tithing systems: a group of 10 families
i. Duties:
1. Agree to follow law
2. Keep the pace in their area
3. Bring law violators to justice (not always defined) ii. Hundred: 10 or more tithing iii. Shire: One or several hundred iv. Shire Reeve: the person who direct the shirt
v. Posses: groups of citizens organized by the shire vi. The Constable Watch: 1285
i. Constable: one man from each parish who was chosen as the peacekeeper, in charge of protection and is paid ii. Constable Rights:
1. Ability to draft watchmen of guards who are not paid iii. Hue and Cry: all male citizens between the ages of 15 and 60 had to …show more content…
The Bow Street Runner: (1748): Formed a group of professional law enforcement agents
v. The Long Metropolitan Police Acts (1829): Sir Robert Peel created a 1,000 officer police force
1. Change to the London Police:
a. Professional Standard
i. Uniform ii. The ways to act and not act iii. Military Rank and Structured iv. Under 2 commissioners vi. Premise of the Principles of Policing:
1. The police must be under governmental control
2. Good appearance commands respect
3. Police headquarters should be centrally located and easily accessible to the people
4. Police should be hired on a probationary basis
c. American Law Enforcement
i. Where was the first paid police force?
i. 1853: New York formed the municipal police department ii. Constable Watch System: which elements made their way to the American Colonies
i. The people were made the police ii. The organization of the protection system was local iii. Law Enforcement on the Frontier: duties
i. Rounding up cattle rustlers ii. Capturing escaped slaves
1. Southern Slave patrol: men on horse back
a. Duties:
i. Prohibited slaves from:
1. Holding meetings
2. Leaving the plantation without permission
3. Traveling without a pass
4. Learning to read or write
b. Slave Codes:
i. Last until the civil war
2.