ABSTRACT
The apple never really falls far from the tree, and this remains a truism of policing’s reactive paradigm of responding to crime. The tree I’m referring to is England’s tithing system begun in AD 648 that included groups of village men (usually 10) responding to the commission of a criminal offense. The group was summoned from the course of their daily routine by a “hue and cry” that beckoned a response to pursue the offender. Upon capturing the rogue, he was turned over to an authority and the group disbanded, returning to individual duties.
