Law Enforcement Admin history

New York City was the first to have an official police department in 1844.

The first detective unit began in New York City in 1857.

In order to deal with and prevent corruption and striking among local police forces, Pennsylvania established the first state police department in 1905.

Nellie Wicks, a Head Attendant for the New York State Department of Corrections, becomes the first female law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty when she was fatally stabbed by an inmate on September 27, 1906.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created in 1908 to investigate antitrust and fraud cases, as well as crimes committed on government property or by government officials.

Ninety-six officers made the ultimate sacrifice in 1909.

In 1916, he helped create the first university-level police educational program at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1920, the Department of Treasury created the first large federal police agency which was in charge of enforcing prohibition.

Established as part of The Center for American and International Law (formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation), the ILEA came into existence as the Southwestern Police Academy in 1957, on the campus of Southern Methodist University.

In July of 1992, the ILEA, supported by a generous grant from the Meadows Foundation of Dallas, Texas, launched the Center for Law Enforcement Ethics.

Closer supervision of police officers was recommended; foot patrols were replaced by motorized patrols, precinct houses were consolidated and more central police facilities constructed; and command functions were centralized in a headquarters staff (Uchida 1993).