To protect and serve
Subtitle: a history of police in America
By: Robert C. Wadman, William Thomas Allison.
Contributors: Allison, William Thomas.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Police -- United States -- History.; Law enforcement -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.
Table of contents: title: Police in early America; title: The development of municipal policing in the Northeast; title: Policing race and violence in the South; title: Policing the American West; title: Urbanization, progressivism, and police; title: The shift to police as profession; title: Police and technology; title: Leaders in American policing; title: Policing to the 21st Century.