Professionalism of Law Enforcement in the 60s and 70s

In the United States and around the world, police forces are formed by the government in order to protect the citizens of a given community. Since before the time the United States was a country, groups were appointed to protect and serve the people who lived here. As time has progressed, people have changed and technologies and laws have likewise developed. With each period, people have entrusted their policemen and policewomen to protect them and to preserve and promote the laws of the country and of the state. However, in certain periods of history wherein the police have not conducted themselves appropriately and have violated certain population's civil liberties and the letter of the law in order to promote the agenda of other groups. In the 1960s and 1970s, the professionalism of the police in general was called into question because...
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