This report analyzes and evaluates police history in the hopes that police executives can better learn from past experiences to create better policing practices for the future. This report exposes an important trend guiding today’s policing practices as compared to policing practices in the past: police departments are becoming more independent and autonomous. This seems to be hindering police from effectively fighting crime and serving their communities at full capacity. This report seeks to reverse this trend by discouraging professional autonomy and focusing police attention to problem-solving partnership with the communities they police. This report divides police history into three eras to better dissect and analyze these periods of history and to provide more essential information to police executives interested in reforming their policing practices by learning from history and past experiences.
Original Title
Kelling, G. L. and Moore, M. H. - Perspectives on Policing: The Evolving Strategy of Policing
This report analyzes and evaluates police history in the hopes that police executives can better learn from past experiences to create better policing practices for the future. This report exposes an important trend guiding today’s policing practices as compared to policing practices in the past: police departments are becoming more independent and autonomous. This seems to be hindering police from effectively fighting crime and serving their communities at full capacity. This report seeks to reverse this trend by discouraging professional autonomy and focusing police attention to problem-solving partnership with the communities they police. This report divides police history into three eras to better dissect and analyze these periods of history and to provide more essential information to police executives interested in reforming their policing practices by learning from history and past experiences.
This report analyzes and evaluates police history in the hopes that police executives can better learn from past experiences to create better policing practices for the future. This report exposes an important trend guiding today’s policing practices as compared to policing practices in the past: police departments are becoming more independent and autonomous. This seems to be hindering police from effectively fighting crime and serving their communities at full capacity. This report seeks to reverse this trend by discouraging professional autonomy and focusing police attention to problem-solving partnership with the communities they police. This report divides police history into three eras to better dissect and analyze these periods of history and to provide more essential information to police executives interested in reforming their policing practices by learning from history and past experiences.