Now that you know you will not be able to implement both programs you can begin researching the best option between the two. Although cost is important, your main priorities are to reduce crime and to improve the relationship between the community and your department.
The mayor (your boss) contacts you, expressing concern over the possibility of community responses if another civilian is shot. The mayor demands that you implement a solution and is holding you personally accountable for the safety of the city. The mayor also reminds you that there is not enough money in the budget to implement both suggestions from the community meeting and wants you to ensure the best solution is put into place.
-What was one of the primary jobs of nineteenth-century police?

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a. Correct. Nineteenth-century police served as the enforcement arm of the political party in power, while also protecting private property and controlling foreign immigrants. Although the amount of pressure politicians are able to exert on police has diminished, politicians still play a role in how police agencies are run. See "American Policing: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,"
b. Incorrect. Police work in the nineteenth century was desirable primarily because it paid much more than most other blue-collar jobs. Nineteenth-century police officers served as the enforcement arm of the political party in power, while also protecting private property and controlling foreign immigrants. Although the amount of pressure politicians are able to exert on police has diminished, politicians still play a role in how police agencies are run. See "American Policing: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,"
c. Incorrect. Professional policing did not become widespread until the twentieth century. Nineteenth-century police officers served as the enforcement arm of the political party in power, while also protecting private property and controlling foreign immigrants. Although the amount of pressure politicians are able to exert on police has diminished, politicians still play a role in how police agencies are run. See "American Policing: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,"
d. Incorrect. One of the roles of nineteenth-century police was to serve as emergency ambulances. However, nineteenth-century police officers served as the enforcement arm of the political party in power, while also protecting private property and controlling foreign immigrants. Although the amount of pressure politicians are able to exert on police has diminished, politicians still play a role in how police agencies are run. See "American Policing: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,"

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