That is true. The water canal system helped trade to go easier if you were to be traveling by water.
Community policing arose out of the need to better connect with minority groups following and during the Civil Rights Movement. The movement had shown police to be hostile, violent, and obstructive in the methods. In response to this, police forces deemed it better to work with and learn from the communities instead of using force due to lack of understanding. This program eventually evolved into cultural learning programs in which multicultural education became a priority.
In many ways the Columbian Exchange that occurred after Columbus landed in the New World was an early form of globalization in that it led to good and ideas to be spread over the world.
