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  2. Peelian principles - Wikipedia

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    The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force. The approach expressed in these principles is commonly known as policing by consent in the United Kingdom and other countries such as Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. [citation needed] In this model of policing, police officers are ...

  3. Police power (United States constitutional law) - Wikipedia

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    The authority for use of police power under American Constitutional law has its roots in English and European common law traditions. [3] Even more fundamentally, use of police power draws on two Latin principles, sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas ("use that which is yours so as not to injure others"), and salus populi suprema lex esto ("the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law ...

  4. Kansas City preventive patrol experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Kansas City preventive patrol experiment was a landmark experiment carried out between 1972 and 1973 by the Kansas City Police Department of Kansas City, Missouri and the Police Foundation, an independent nonprofit research organization [1] today known as the National Policing Institute. [2] It was designed to test the assumption that the ...

  5. August Vollmer - Wikipedia

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    August Vollmer (March 7, 1876 – November 4, 1955) was the first police chief of Berkeley, California, and a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century. He has been described as "the father of modern policing". [ 1 ] Vollmer played an influential role in introducing early ...

  6. Community policing - Wikipedia

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    Community policing. Police officers interact with the public in Des Moines, Iowa, during Police Week 2010. Community policing or community-oriented policing (COP) is a strategy of policing that focuses on developing relationships with community members. It is a philosophy of full-service policing that is highly personal, where an officer ...

  7. Restorative justice - Wikipedia

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    Restorative justice is an approach to justice that aims to repair the harm done to victims. [ 1 ][ 2 ] In doing so, practitioners work to ensure that offenders take responsibility for their actions, to understand the harm they have caused, to give them an opportunity to redeem themselves, and to discourage them from causing further harm.

  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Preceded by. Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and ...

  9. Anglo-Saxon law - Wikipedia

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    By the later Anglo-Saxon period, a system of courts had developed to administer the law, while enforcement was the responsibility of ealdormen and royal officials such as sheriffs, in addition to self-policing by local communities. Originally, each Anglo-Saxon kingdom had its own laws.