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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"This well-crafted book, replete with anecdotes, systematically addresses issues such as technology, hiring practices, training, budgets, labor relations, evolving communities, and post 9-11 trends that challenge today's police departments. The reader will come away with a wealth of information from sections in the book called 'Voices from the Field.' These are the words of law enforcement professionals who have shared their experiences, which augment the authors' own perspectives. ... Written specifically for law enforcement executives and police officers striving for advancement, this book will also encourage those dedicated to promoting the police profession through the use of foresight to continue with their futurist ideology."
-Dr. Brian L. Royster, Saint Peter's University, in Security Management
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Police executives and chiefs, sheriffs, criminal justice administrators, academics, public administration professionals, policy makers, and resource planners.
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2 s/w Abbildungen
2 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4398-3795-5 (9781439837955)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Michael E. Buerger, Joseph A. Schafer, Richard W. Mysers, Carl J. Jensen III, Bernhard H. Levin
Autor*in
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Colorado Springs Police Department, Colorado, USA
The Citadel, SC, USA
Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, Virginia, USA
Foreword, Acknowledgments, Author Biographies, 1 Setting the Stage, 2 Futures Thinking and Research, 3 Future Trends, 4 Communities, 5 Boundaries: Disappearing, Reemerging, and Merging, 6 The Future of Crime, 7 On the Beat, 8 Police Personnel: Culture, Hiring, and Development, 9 Organizational Solutions, 10 On the Horizon: The Police Organization of the Future, 11 Putting It All Together, Appendix: Principles of the Wheaton Police Department
