LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ottawa Police Service, Highway Patrol, Shift Work
Document Summary
Police have the legitimate authority to exercise force on citizens. Policing as a verb is different; the act of maintaining law and order and enforcing regulations. The constant surveillance, observation, and analysis of citizens. Brief historical analysis of policing: the rich needed people to protect their stuff. They hired and paid people to protect their expanding wealth. Was a way of maintaining this inequality between the rich and the poor by inhibiting the poor from being thieves. Eventually, there was a stronger need for a more centralized policing force. Becomes the beginning of the institutionalized police force. Sir robert peel: introduced the first institutionalized police force in 1829. The force was used in the interest of the wealthy. They had salaries and a certain social status to keep them from becoming corrupt or bribing. The police are like a para-military force with the goal of maintaining social order, unlike killing like the military.
