SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Handlebar Moustache, Dominion Police, Toronto Police Service
14 Sep 2016
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Early as the 1650, the french. (quebec) Were not paid or trained nor was it organized. They walked around to make sure that things were okay. If no one volunteered you wouldn"t have a police in your community. They were appointed by jp main order and carry out court orders. Better trained, but still a better volunteer. Appointed citizens to be constables in each township. Influence of robert peel & london metropolitan police (1829) Break down the barrier between persons, knowing that there is not much of a difference between everyone. Police are the public and the public are the police. The idea: police should have a number of key values: equity, accountability, transparency (monitor their actions, records exposed to the public) and neutrality (politically neutral) People were not entirely convinced that society required a police bureaucracy. Greater amounts of crime happening (pockets of urban crime)
