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The Future of Police Image and Ethics

This article reviews highlights of the advances of professional policing in recent decades and illuminates the obstacles that continue to prevent the image of police from becoming more positive. Also ...

Ethics

Shared Responsibility: The Next Step in Professional Ethics

Police departments have put in place various programs to address misconduct by officers. These include requiring ongoing ethics training for officers, improving use-of-force policies and training, dev...

Community-Police Engagement

Marketing the Smaller Agency

Police officers perform many tasks to safeguard their community's quality of life. Sometimes their constituents take for granted, forget, or do not know about the good work that officers do and the ri...