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Law Enforcement in the First Decades of the US

I am interested in knowing what law enforcement was like at the time the US Constitution was drafted and signed. If anyone reading this has knowledge of the history of law enforcement during that period, would you be willing to add a section? Jzilliac (talk) 19:38, 11 May 2010 (UTC)jzilliac[reply]

The History section is quite small and bad. Manys (talk) 16:48, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Equipment and uniforms

I feel that the article merits an equipment section, including a discussion of uniforms and vehicles, and would eventually include the weapons section as well. Here are some sources regarding uniforms:

AniRaptor2001 (talk) 02:00, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good article assessment

While this article has a lot of good in it, the major lack of references, and a slightly need for wikifying, holds it back from Good Article nomination at this time.--SGGH 16:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

--Does anyone know the status of Police in the US when it concerns an invasion?-- --V. Joe 22:46, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Status as in what? Martial law means the military takes over all legal control. Whose invading? Where are they invading? The US has a long tradition of subordination of the military to the civilian and the military takes pride in being a protector of the Constitution. We have a vastly decentralized control of police agencies in the US for a reason.--131.238.92.62 08:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I only asked (months ago) because I was reading an alternate history of WWII where Japan had invaded Hawaii, and I was curious as to what the police forces are "supposed" to do in the event of a partial or actual invasion of the United States. Cheers V. Joe 16:21, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Training

Basic (academy) and in-service training are not addressed at all. No firearms training, defensive tactics, role-playing, precision and pursuit driving, handling of evidence, rules of criminal procedure... Huge hole in this article until someone fills it. Police work is not just guns and handcuffs.--131.238.92.62 08:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will be adding reference/citing sources, and will be editing the page to include things like de-escalading, scenario based training.~~Popo10-4 Popo10-4 (talk) 18:50, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Styles of policing

added sections on styles of policing, and police functions, with documentation. Tychocat 09:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a good reference [1] for the "Policing styles" section. →James Kidd (contr/talk/email) 03:21, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The styles of policing is heavily Whitewashed and eupahmistic. The "reform-minded" part is still missing sitation, and is a heavily POV tinged section contrasting urban policing, where there is talk about a controversy around "treating everyone the same regardless of some group crime potency" Ie minorities, this is contrasted with suburban communities, which are described as homogenous, ie white and wealthy, and as places where policing is not as needed because of their homogenity, ie homogenous white communities, rather than looking at wealth, and urban density, ie mcmansions in the middle of nowhere of course has less drug trade and bussiness crimes associated with it, as many suburbs are bedroom communities where cars are needed to go into those icky non-homogenous towns where so much more crime is happening. If you are going to use a police style section to front load political views about the dangers of non-homogenity in a section about urban criminology dressed up as polcing tatics. Then please actually give the right relevant sources. Akiosi (talk) 14:34, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Controversy

why was there no "Controversy" heading? Not all police are helpful and friendly. Very few police (that I've encountered) took the "Service" part of their job seriously. I am a very law abiding citizen and highly educated individual but no matter what the forum I interact with a police officer in, they always end up hassling me, as if I had done something wrong. Very few people I know (most of which are college graduates and model citizens) have anything positive to say about police officers. Rodney King, anyone?

I agree. While also a law-abiding taxpayer myself, any interaction I have ever had with the police showed that they handle themselves in a highly egotistical and pushy manner. This article makes it seem that no Police officer is corrupt or that all of them are friendly peace officers running around looking for cats to rescue from trees. Let's be a little more realistic please.

If you want to write a controversy section, the police brutality that occurred in the late '60s would be a good jumping-off point. 74.75.59.121 (talk) 22:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy about Controversy

If you want to include a section about controversy... Please consider WRITING one... but make sure you research it and cite your sources V. Joe 21:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CIA

I don't think that we should be listing the CIA as a Federal police force. While they work in conjunction with FBI and others at times they don't truly enforce laws, instead acting as an intelligence gathering and paramilitary organization. Most importantly, the CIA does not operate within the US. I have left it for now, but I would like to hear other people's opinions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.171.0.213 (talk) 05:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC) No one has objected so far, so I removed the CIA. 76.171.0.213 18:44, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Archaic pictures

Could someone take some more modern pictures? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.138.11.3 (talk) 01:23, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Forest Preserve Police

I put them in the county section as they police the forest preserve district in each county, and are county wide, county level.

I do not see the problem with talking about a county level law enforcement agency in the county section, moving the description to a page that is a list page makes no sense. The article talks about diferent states and situations, the Forest preserve district police, or sometimes ranger police, are at the county level and are full police I do not see the problem with the information. There are two almost duplicate sections on Police and Sheriffs, that I feel should be merged. --Never give up! Never surrender! (talk) 01:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Corresponding Branch within the Government

If there are the three branches of the United States government, legislative, executive, and judicial, then this article needs to clearly explain under which branch, if any, law enforcement in the United States resides. A clear discussion of which branch under federal law, and then into state's law, and then under any further subdivisions. While the answer may be complicated, this article is clearly lacking as a result of the absence of this information.

If the answer is too complicated to fit neatly into any current article subsections, then an entirely new section needs to be introduced to discuss this matter and why it is complicated. We teach children about the three branches of the government, and we teach children about the police, yet we cannot reconcile their coexistence in a Wikipedia article?--74.235.10.206 (talk) 07:05, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply] 

      My thoughts regarding which branch police are in- most federal LE is within the executive branch. Some are particularly answerable and supervised by the judicial branch such as the Supreme Court Police and the US Marshals but I think they are still out of the executive budget. But their jurisdiction is defined by Congress and their budgets come from Congress. On the state and municipal level things are not always clearly distinguished as far as branches. Sheriff is almost always its own elected office. State patrols/ state police are all supervised by the executive branch.

Even if someone does all the research necessary I'm not sure the branch of government data would be a good addition to this article. What does anyone else think? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjc (talk

Correction in History Paragraph Four

Correction in History Paragraph Four There seems to be a mistake in paragraph four. The oldest state-level law enforcement agency in the United States is the Texas Rangers Division commonly called the Texas Rangers. This agency was first established in 1823 and formalized i.e., constituted in 1835. Dlkirkland (talk) 16:57, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Entry qualifications

Must '*Be in good physical and psychological condition'. This may be an entry requirement, but from personal observation is clearly not an ongoing requirement. Perhaps the article needs to mention the issue of obesity in (some) officers serving in US police forces?1812ahill (talk) 23:04, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Section name...

A section is titled "Less lethal weapons." I know deaths have occurred (obviously) from their usage, but aren't they usually (or almost universally) classified as "Non-lethal weapon?" 98.198.85.83 (talk) 09:24, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Recent shootings

This page should link pages describing recent issues.
What about linking Police brutality in the United States.Xx236 (talk) 09:57, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Whitewash

This article is incomplete without reference to the many official investigations into police misconduct, such as the US Department of Justice's report on police misconduct in Ferguson, Missouri. This is far from an isolated incident. A few bad apples? Then say so. Put it in its context. By avoiding the topic completely you are giving credibility to the complaints about police. (Police perjury in the United States, Police brutality in the United States, Police riots in the United States.) deisenbe (talk) 15:07, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Make up of law enforcement

Hello! I was thinking about adding a law enforcement break down of gender and race when it comes to employment by law enforcement in the United States. Does anyone thing that would be a good idea or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clymernl (talk • contribs) 14:33, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Controversies

I am also going to make a section for the controversies regarding police. More specifically the police shootings in places such as Ferguson. Clymernl (talk) 14:20, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Controversies

I am also adding some of the race riots in 1960s and the Rodney King related riots in the 1990s.Clymernl (talk) 23:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Federal

I am adding citations to the federal law enforcement part as well as deleting some of them. There was confusion originally as to where certain agencies report.Clymernl (talk) 23:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

County and Sheriff

I deleted some of the county police and sheriff information because some of it appeared to be plagiarized and I also added some sources to both parts.Clymernl (talk) 23:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Future

I ran out of time on this project but if someone could add more sources, add to the controversy page, and update some of the information such as salary, that would be a good thing to do.

History

The history section of this page should be examined

  1. It is extremely biased
  2. it is historically inaccurate, there were obviously existing police activities prior to the 1700's

--97.73.244.150 (talk) 02:49, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if editors consider the above concerns still applicable about that section generally, but I find it odd that a claim about the Charleston Guard and Watch is cited to an article about Mennonites, which doesn't clarify the source of the word "crime" in quotes. That article in turn does not provide a citation for the text quoted here, but instead for a phrase in quotes in the next sentence. The cited source is Neil Websdale's "Policing the Poor", though unfortunately Google Books' search inside feature did not help me find the corresponding text there and thus enable me to replace the existing citation with a better one. I don't know how likely it is, but I hope that someone with access to Websdale's text does so. 208.59.185.238 (talk) 00:16, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Number of cops

Article says there are 17,195 police agencies. I googled “How many police officers in USA?”

How do you have an article that tells you how many agencies without telling you how many cops? Rsleejr (talk) 17:01, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This chart says there around 700,000 cops in the US, with a peak of 708,000 in 2008 and a sudden dip to 620,000 in 2013, which have since risen to 697,000 in 2019. The current population section has none of this information and it is really confusing if not misleading LutherVinci (talk) 04:13, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Vice squads

Do we have a page or a section for the vice units in the US police? -- Mhhossein talk 12:55, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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First U.S. constable predates the U.S. by over a hundred years...?

"and in 1634 the first U.S. constable on record was Joshua Pratt"

Am I the only one confused by this? How can someone be the first U.S. constable when the U.S. didn't yet exist, and the "constable" died before the U.S.(A). was formed? 83.226.98.151 (talk) 12:47, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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