The History of Technology in Policing

Identify and explain how technology was used in each of the following policing eras:

Political Era

Professional Era

Community Oriented Era

Identify and explain how technology changed policing methods in patrol during each policing era and how the effect of science and technology had an impact on the world as it applies to policing.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

There have been massive advancements in technology over the course of three eras as has been divided by scholars and historians. The three policing periods include the political era, the professional model, and the community-policing period, which is the current model of policing in use in the United States (Kelling & Moore, 1989). The first of the three periods, the political period, saw a policing structure where the political figures had a strong influence on regulating law enforcement. This epoch gave way to the professional model where the reformers aimed at cleaning the political connections to policing. The era saw improvements in the technology like the introduction of the polygraph and use of radar. The professional model gave birth to the community oriented policing era, which heavily relies…