Discuss the most important result of the Wickersham Commission

What will be an ideal response?


? The Wickersham Commission was appointed by President Herbert Hoover in 1929 to assess the American criminal justice system.
? The Commission focused on two areas of American policing were reform was needed: (1) police brutality and (2) the corrupting influence of politics.
? Reformers of the time took the commission's findings as a call for the professionalism of the American police and initiated the reform era in American policing.

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What will be an ideal response?

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