A Social Contract is an agreement between the public and the government in which the public allows the government to provide safety and security in lieu of them giving up certain freedoms.

An officer policing style that is concerned with maintaining order and puts emphasis on individual rights along with due process is known as idealistic.  

The most powerful tool that a Police Officer has in their toolkit is the power of arrest.

The “Father of Police Professionalism” is known as August Vollmer.

Early female police officers were mainly assigned to desk jobs or to work with juvenile/children-related duties.

Ethics are a set of moral principles that help to guide a person’s behavior.

Early Americans were slow to adopt the idea and functions of law enforcement in America’s early development. The ideology behind the slow movement can be attributed to memories of the British Royal Military’s actions, the British King’s rule, and harsh taxation.

Southern Police officials in post-Civil War America largely ignored injustices and brutality like lynchings committed by the Ku Klux Klan because of things like lack of accountability, political power dynamics, racial attitudes, and institutional racism.

Which of the following factors converged in the mid-1800s to lead to the creation of the first formal police department?

Landmark Supreme Court case which took a stance on civil rights of notification and self-incrimination?