Perspectives on the Future of Policing Archives

The Emerging Dominance of AI

Technology advances in the 21st century will have a profound impact on law enforcement and society. Robotics combined with artificial intelligence (AI) will challenge today’s conventional ideas a...

Criminal Justice Reform

Reconciling the Past to Move to the Future

Recently, I noticed a family out walking their dog through the neighborhood. What struck me was the five-year-old who was in a motorized toy car with “Sheriff’s Office” decals, wearing a poli...

Community-Police Engagement

Getting Human Service Delivery Right

The successful police departments of the next decade will be those that have engaged their communities; human services partners; and most critically, their political leadership to improve the manner i...

Technology

Emerging Technology in Policing

As a sworn law enforcement officer specializing in all forms of law enforcement technology, it would be naïve of me to say that the future of policing will not see much change. I have been in my p...

Criminal Justice Reform

The Future of Policing Is in Our Shared Vision

Let’s start with something that we all can agree on—both the police and the community want safer neighborhoods. Safer schools. Safer highways. What we don’t always agree on is how to get ther...

Mental Health

The Future of Police Psychology

Police psychologists of the future will be force multipliers who will implement exponential force fitness. They will be true scientist-practitioners who can be holoported to any scene with unrestricte...

Community-Police Engagement

Protecting the Most Vulnerable

In the future, the steps needed to build public trust in policing will be collaboratively focused and will represent a distinctive organizational philosophy for many departments. In some respects, ...

Criminal Justice Reform

Policing: A Bright Future Characterized by Change

The future of policing is very bright, but it will be characterized by challenges, change, and hope. The role of policing, which is to professionally guide community safety, will not change. But th...