Many people are familiar with police officers in today's world and know that it is their job to enforce the laws established by their government, but few People know typical American history every day. policeman or how they appeared. The idea of ​​neither your everyday police officer, nor the department they work for, nor the operation of a police department, originated in the United States. Over the years, America has made changes and adapted its system to make it more suited to the beliefs and practices of its country. Police forces or law enforcement have been used for centuries all over the world, but America has taken a particular interest in English policing. system. American policing ideas and processes began based on the British model. In the early 1200s, when Britain began its law enforcement program, it was very disorganized and in no way served "justice" to its people. Trials to determine whether a person was innocent or guilty were very rare, and when they did occur, innocence and guilt were not proven, but assumed that the offender was simply guilty. In most cases, this would cause the "offender" to become a victim by being subjected to public executions which normally involved torture and other inhumane practices towards the victim. However, in the late 1200s, British legal practices began to change and become more organized and fair. A set of four rules which would become known as the Winchester Statue and which would establish the guidelines which would create a system of surveillance and surveillance in English towns and villages which would codify previous policing systems and practices. Meanwhile, in early 18th century London, Henry Fielding nicknamed a force of dedicated English policemen the Bow Street Runn...... middle of paper ...... long ago he adopted English law enforcement practices as their own founding all those years ago, but that doesn't mean the United States doesn't still have a long way to go in perfecting its own law enforcement system. the law. Works Cited • Schmalleger, F. (2013). Police: history and structure. Criminal Justice Today, An Introductory Text for the 21st Century (12th ed., ). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. • Toughbook Stuff by Bob Johnson. (nd). : How police technology has changed... Retrieved from http://www.panasoniclaptops.com/2012/01/how-police-technology-has-changed.html• United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Innocent until proven guilty, Videos: United for Human Rights (UN Declaration of Human Rights, Innocent until proven guilty, Videos: United for Human Rights) http: //www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/videos/innocent-till-proven-guilty.html