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: Comparative Analysis on Policing over the last 50 years An old adage holds that people who do not remember the past are fated to do it again. Regrettably, a lot of law enforcement officers seem to believe that history of the law enforcement work started the day when they first strapped on a gunbelt and pinned on a badge. As such, each up-and-coming movement in police tends to be regarded as something that is totally new without a historical context, and such is mostly the case at present with community policing. Police-Community Relations An earlier articulation of what would later on develop into the philosophy of community policing is found in the case study of the San Francisco Police Depar