Impact On Policing And Policing

Register to read the introduction… The fact is new technology affected a great relationship that was built throughout the years with police officers and citizens within the community. The police no longer walked the streets in the neighborhood, instead they road by in their patrol cars with their windows rolled up and told citizens to call the police for service and promised a rapid response upon receiving their call. (Police: History-Policing Twentieth Century America^ C” the Reform Era, (n.d.) It is now the 20th Century and policing today is almost the same as it was in the 1900s, when new technology surfaced, two-way radios, patrol cars and telephones made a major impact on how policing would be done in the years to come. As time has changed technology has gotten better throughout the years and has found different ways to improve policing in a changing society. Policing has changed from police officers walking through the neighborhoods, to patrolling the neighborhood in patrol cars and talking on two-way radios and telephones. However, new technology has made has its mark once again, and has help replace some of the policing in the neighborhoods, the new technology is surveillance cameras. Surveillance cameras are everywhere these days, police have cameras in their patrol cars, there on the street …show more content…
The only way to move forward is to plan for the future, policing has come a long way from the 1900s, leading into the 2000s. Policing has reached its highs and lows while serving their communities, it appears that each time new technology presents itself it has its pro and cons. Beginning when police officers left their post on the streets and began riding in patrol cars to police the neighborhood, and with the improvement of technology surveillance cameras were put in place to help the policing. In the next 20 years technology is expected to take policing to an all-time high, According to Cetron & Davies (2008),” technological advances are creating a much bigger role for physical evidence such as DNA and other forms of personal identification.” This technology is not available at this time but if it were it would help identify people faster and may be the solution of keeping the crime rate down. In the next 20 years technology will be more sophisticated and become easier to use and would require very little training.“ These tools will be widely adopted and will transform policing” Cetron & Davies (2008.) Technology is so fascinating that it can be scary at times, while being so advance who really knows what the future