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It has been said that “culture eats strategy,” and in this time of intense focus on the law enforcement profession, we often hear calls for culture change and reform alongside the calls for new po...
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In August 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Rights Division, issued a report on their investigation into the Baltimore, Maryland, Police Department (BPD). The report focused on several...
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The New Orleans, Louisiana, Police Department (NOPD) has had its share of problems. Its history includes poor training; weak supervision; excessive force; racial profiling; biased policing; inadequate...
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Policing has a long and storied history, but as any textbook can tell you, it is also constantly evolving.
Sometimes the evolution of policing is catalyzed by a particularly innovative idea. Being ...
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Drug users and sex workers frequently cycle through the criminal justice system in what is sometimes referred to as a ?revolving door.?1 On balance, the traditional approach of incarceration and prose...
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Connecticut is one of the smallest states in the United States—it can be driven end-to-end in two hours. In the late 1960s, Connecticut did away with counties, replacing them with a centraliz...
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In May 2015, the Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing (task force report) was released to the public. The task force report was the culmination of Executive Order 1368...
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The world population took 50,000 years to reach 1 billion people. Two hundred years after that 19th-century milestone, Earth has more than 7 billion human inhabitants.1 Huge megapolises are inhabited ...
