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POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY.
POLICE ADMINISTRATION.
THE word police has a wide variety of meanings. Etymo-
logically it signifies the entire public activity of the city-
state; and in Germany to-day police administration includes
the whole sphere of internal governmental administration. In
a somewhat more limited sense, the word is used in the United
States to indicate a sphere of governmental action that is
definable only to this extent, that it excludes foreign relations
and the economic functions of government. The police power
of the American states extends to all matters that affect
public order and the moral and physical health of the, com-
munity. In this paper, however, the word police is used in
its narrowest sense, to denote the special machinery for the pres-
ervation of order and the prevention and detection of crime.
This machinery is found more particularly in modern urban
municipalities. It consists of an organized and disciplined
force of men for the systematic patrol of the public ways and
of special magistrates for dealing summarily with the large
mass of minor cases which demand prompt decision.
Such machinery in its present form is of recent origin; and,
indeed, it is closely connected with the growth of densely popu-
lated urban communities. In ancient Rome there was a sys-
tematic police administration, at first under the control of the
aediles, who date from the third century of the city; while
under the Empire a more perfect organization was created.
Volume X VI.]
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