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Police Reformers

            POLICE REFORMERS: LESSONS FROM HISTORY.
             The old adage states that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the Criminal Justice world it is important to remember our history and learn from what we have already discovered. .
             The Reform Era began early in the twentieth century to deal with the political influence embedded in American Policing. Prior to the Reform Era police officers were under the command of politically appointed captains who "owed their allegiance and their jobs to the political party that appointed them, so they often promoted the interests of political leaders" (text, 84). This type of "sleeping with politics" policing can only invite and encourage corruption. "The ultimate goal of police reformers was the removal of politics from the police" (text, 84). The reformers idea was to get rid of such problems as police brutality, corruption, and political interference by instilling a sense of professionalism about policing.
             The reformers were made up of police administrators and urban elites. The police administrators sought to gain independence from political forces and to achieve a higher level of professionalism throughout the policing community. The urban elites idea of reform centered around taking away power from the political persons who had control of the police and also take away the power from the working class. Policing at the turn of the century was all localized with local government in control of all police efforts. And while this urban elite group of society did not have enough pull to make changes all throughout the country several local police agencies did succumb to State power. "Concern about corruption and brutality in local police forces resulted in State takeovers of some city departments and let to the creation of new State police organizations removed from the corrupting influences of local ward politics" (Patterson, 2).


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