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Content: Policing was done intermittently by
the military and society was largely "unpoliced". With the formation of
modern states with clear national borders beginning in the 18thcentury, policing became concerned with internal security and the prevention
of public dangers. With the expansion of the law over the next several
centuries police came to be increasingly concerned with internal security,
the prevention of public dangers and the prevention r redress of breaches
of law. They also themselves came to be more controlled by the law. There is no simple or widely
agreed upon definition of a democratic police. Indeed it is easier to define
a non-democratic police and non-democratic police behavior than their opposites. But viewed abstractly all democratic police systems share the ideal that
police powers are to be used according to the rule of law and not according
to the whims of the ruler or the police agent. The state’s power must be
used in a restrained fashion and proportional to the problem. In the original
British model there was to be policing by consent and hence an unarmed
police. Ideally citizens would accept police authority out of respect,
rather than out of intimidation.