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As communities continue to undergo rapid demographic shifts that modify their composition, culture, and collective values, police departments serving those communities must evolve accordingly in order to remain effective. The Future of Policing: A Practical Guide for Police Managers and Leaders provides concrete instruction to agencies on how to promote successful policing by proceeding on a course informed by future trends and emerging community forces. Explores critical variables necessary for decision-making Designed for typical police departments with common structures, problems, and opportunities, this book offers a unique juxtaposition of real-life examples, futures research, emergent trends, and management implications. Each chapter provides a discussion of the professional literature, current and projected trends, and situations faced by agency executives and leaders. Through this multidimensional and contemporaneous approach, the book explores community and political variables crucial to the decision-making process. It describes methods that managers can employ to explore the future and prepare their agencies for possible, probable, and preferable trends and opportunities.
Provides specific, concrete examples Drawn from the authors' research, as well as their own instructional and practical experience in the policing profession, this volume goes beyond esoteric, theoretical analysis and instead provides practical and well-grounded strategies for those who aspire to become police managers or current managers wishing to improve their proficiency. Using futures research and methodologies as the foundation for the text, this volume prepares practitioners to meet the challenges of policing and police management in the 21st century.
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Publisher & Imprint:
CRC Press Inc
City:
Baton Rouge
Pages:
432
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Age recommended:
General/trade
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC22) 363.2
Record updated at:
16 May, 2013
time:
20:49
Summary
The Future of Policing
Setting the Stage Challenges in Police Organizations Leadership, Management, Supervision, and Administration Problems with the Present Police Organizational Model An Analysis of Failure The Potential Benefits of Futures Studies for Policing Five Key Themes The Emergence of Futures Thinking Within and About American Policing The Organization of This Book Futures Thinking and Research The Acceleration of Change What Is Futures Studies? A Short History of Futures Research Futures Studies as a Leadership Tool Methods of Forecasting the Future Future Trends Technological Trends Demographic Trends Economic Trends Social and Community Trends Political Trends What Does All This Mean for Policing? Communities The Police and the Community The Evolving Nature of Community Communication Technology and Community Communication Technology and Policing Social Networking Tools and Social Engagement Policing Implications of Social Networking Involving Communities in Policing Trust, Transparency, and Leadership Challenges and Opportunities Created by the Changing Nature of Community Boundaries: Disappearing, Reemerging, and Merging Three Examples in High Relief Why Boundaries? Technologies and Policing Jurisdiction, Mandates, and Threats The Influence of Money Federal vs. Local Responsibilities Intelligence Militarization Transparency External Oversight and Influence The Future of Crime Economic Drivers Health Care Technology Immigration The Drug War A Problem of Identity Gang-Based Crime Other Trends in Crime and Policing Investigation Criminals Victims Citizen Resilience On the Beat Technology Future Law and Governance Considerations What Works in Policing? Evidence-Based Operations Predictive Policing Police Personnel: Culture, Hiring, and Development Cultural Forces Personnel Hiring Training Employee Development Discipline Organizational Solutions Mission, Vision, and Values Economic Realities in Policing Managing through Tough Times Employee Input Organizational Evaluation Policy Development and Accreditation Progressive Approaches to Employee Discipline Opportunities Emerging through Change Leadership and Care From Where Will Future Police Leaders Emerge? On The Horizon: The Police Organization of the Future A Brief Look Backward Structures and Processes Maximizing the Power of Generations Eligibility for Employment Creating a Preferred Culture The Nexus between Training and Education Purposive Career Development Radical Change Putting It All Together Revisiting the Book's Themes Other Considerations for the Future Wild Cards Leveraging Culture The Role of Community Using the Leadership GPS to Navigate into the Future Practical Strategies Reconceptualizing Police Management and Leadership to Create Better Policing Appendix: Principles of the Wheaton Police Department
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