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The Policing Model Essay

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The policing model was first implemented under the principles of Sir Robert Peel the Home Secretary of England (chpt2 ).
America followed Peel’s ideology of policing and in the Northern states began what has been referred to as the night watchmen, who were mainly volunteers.
In the southern states, however the watchmen concentrated on slavery, before and prior to Jim Crow, the guard’s primary responsibility was to watch over African Americans.
During the 18th century many things changed primarily due to the Industrial Revolution.
As you may know, the development of industries during this period caused for many people to relocate from families and rural farm life that was very prevalent in the early years.
Cities quickly grew in population …show more content…

The legalizing of alcohol has been considered to be rather problematic especially for the underclass.
While the poorer and less educated in society were considered to be the problem for the more elite who was in charge of running the show and had the power.
While the same industry was profiting by the sale and consumption of alcohol the side effects that alcohol had on people was not then recognized as problematic, the primary goal was to profit while keeping people controlled.
A lot of our history during this time tells us that the poor people, usually immigrants and freed slaves were the ones focused on as whites were predominately running the show.
The upper-class took advantage of their workers and the less fortunate as many are familiar and it would continue this way until the Labor Union was created and protestors began fighting for their rights.
I suppose it could be said that all people who were not running the show were essentially slaves to the ruling class even if not owned outright like the southern states, the affluent class of the inner cities in the upper states still ruled and controlled the hungry, poor, and uneducated people in their

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