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Questions
1. What is the Latin term that "police" comes from?
2. What is the modern-day equivalent to a "Questor"?
3. What is a "Vigiles"?
4. What is the "Mutual Pledge" system and who is in charge of its' components?
5. What are "Thief-Takers" and why did they generally create more crime?
6. What was unique in Henry Fielding's "Bow Street Runners" that happens most of the time in today's society?
7. Who was responsible for the London Metropolitan Police and why is this police department important?
8. What are Peel's 9 principles?
9. What are "slave patrols" and why are they significant to police history?
10. Explain the Dred Scott decision and what it meant for our country at that time.
11. What is unique about the Boston PD in 1851?
12. Explain what the Posse Comitatus act accomplished.
13. What group was the first to become a "State Police" agency?
14. What was significant about the Wickersham Commission?
15. What role does John Edgar Hoover play in police history?
16. There was a great deal of Civil Disobedience in the 1960's-1970's. What was occurring during that time and how did police respond? Could they have responded better? How?
17. Explain what the Knapp Commission was and what it accomplished.
18. What is significant about the LEAA?