CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jim Crow Laws, Dependent And Independent Variables, Potter Stewart
24 Oct 2018
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An incomplete history of policing in the us: professionalization of policing, discretion. Kelling and moore - trying to paint a picture for white america. " a system of law enforcement involving a permanent agency employing full- time officers who engage in continuous patrol of fixed beats to prevent crime" (pg. Police departments also: enforce laws unequally and enforce unequal laws. Political era (kelling and moore) 1840"s - early 1900"s. Police departments are: connected to political machines, close to communities they patrolled, decentralized (allows for discretion), had a lot of power to make individual decisions. If you were close to officers, you had fast responses. Point out police agencies originally were informal militias, night watches and slave patrol. If you were a slave or a formal slave, your voices will not be heard. Post civil war: discriminatory laws: point out that kelling and moore do not point out post civil war effects on blacks.
