Changing the Guard

Reviews / Votes

"Changing the Guard explores the unnumbered side streets of US foreign police assistance and reveals a work of programmatic chaos that officials admit is out of control. Beyond its value as a bureaucratic "who done it," the book offers important insights into improving the delivery of police assistance, in particular that security need not be achieved at the expense of democratic reform."--Robert Perito, author of Where Is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him?: America's Search for a Postconflict Stability Force "David Bayley has brought wisdom and perception to a distinguished career that has established him as the world's leading scholar of international policing. Changing the Guard, his latest effort, is a capstone. It is a beautifully written and thoroughly admirable book that will prove indispensable to both scholars and practitioners concerned with the meaning of democratic policing--and how to infuse it into emerging democracies."--Jerome H. Skolnick, author of Justice Without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic Society "David Bayley's long experience, thorough research and clear thinking shine through on every page of this book. He is one of the few writers in this field that combines an understanding of the internal dynamics of police organizations with insight into international assistance. Against this background, he manages to take the jumbled pieces of the police assistance puzzle and lay them out to form a cohesive and concise picture. But the book is not least a valuable contribution because David Bayley follows his research through to its final conclusions - conclusions that are both policy relevant and instructive for fellow academics."--Annika S. Hansen, author of From Congo to Kosovo: Civilian Police in Peace Operations