From Slave Patrols to Community Policing: The Evolution of Modern Law Enforcement

Name Institutional Affiliations Date Module 1 Assignment: History of Policing Policing has changed from the dictatorial nature to community-based approaches that prove essential in ensuring a corrective responsibility between police and community in solving contemporary problems across the globe. One can trace back this modern-day policing to earliest formal slave patrol of the early 18th century created in Carolina aimed at establishing a system of terror and squash slave uprisings. However such formalities in policing became enhanced through Metropolitan Police act of 1829 and Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Peelian Principles of policing to ensure that policing became a respectable profession and combating crime became a corrective responsibility. The Metropilitan Police Act of 1829 became influe