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The relationship between the United States government and policing organizations throughout the United States is tat of a Federal, Top Level of Policing/ Law enforcement that breaks down into smaller organizations along the State, County, City levels. Given the broad range of the type of policing that each individual agency provides varies greatly depending on the local culture. The population of the area, population of members of law enforcement. The laws that each agency is responsible for enforcing. And, the ways that each agency interacts with each other. Be it beneficial or contentious. All of these variables have a very defining effect on the practices that policing agencies adopt and implement in order to hopefully do their job of law enforcement as efficiently and as proper as possible given the factors that are in effect to influence the decision to enact a policy or not.
Sir Robert Peele made a massively defining impact on policing in the United States. With the use of his nine principles. The first principle gives the man mission of any policing force is the prevention of crime without the use of the military or unnecessarily severe judicial punishment. Thus ensuring that in the exception of emergency situations you will not see combat troops and tanks responding to 911 calls or People being put to death for minor offences.
The second principal depicts a policing force that does its duties properly to maintain public respect thus maintaining public approval for the agency to exist. I feel that this principle is overlooked here in the United States. You can’t shut down the police dept. because it has lost the respect of the community or communities it serves.
The third principle calls for the public to cooperate with the police by observing the laws. But, the fourth principle tells how the use of force can lessen the public’s cooperation. Hmmm sounds a lot like what is going on now in too many cities were the excessive use of force by law enforcement has led to not only a diminished cooperation but blatant civil disobedience with associated violence and vandalism.
The fifth principle denotes a law enforcement agency that is impartial in the performance of its duties without prejudice but with “humor” and is ready to make personal sacrifices to protect and to serve. Hey, isn’t “protect and serve” written on most of the vehicles? Yes it is.
Now the sixth principle is a big one. It states that in order to achieve the objective of compliance with the law or restore order. The police can only use the minimum amount of force that is necessary. And, only after using less invasive techniques such as persuasion, warnings and advice.
Peel calls the seventh principle a historic tradition, the police are the public and the public is the police. Meaning t hat every citizen is responsibility to uphold the law. The difference is that the police are paid fulltime wages to uphold the law(s)
The eighth principle keeps the law enforcement agency from overstepping its duty to enforce the laws and not to impose a punishment or not to do the jobs of judgment or punishment.
The final principle is that the true evidence of the effectiveness of a policing agency is the absence of criminal acts and disorder within the community. Not the sight of police on the streets trying to maintain or restore order. A visual deterrent is good but won’t completely stop crime by itself.
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