Description
Book SynopsisThis practical guide to policing reform presents a call to action to address a threefold crisis in policing – a catastrophic loss of trust between police and the communities they serve; a sharp increase in violent crime after decades of decline; and a serious recruitment and retention challenge depleting police departments across the United States. The authors also recognize that, while these issues are now top of mind, policing needs far-reaching reform in order to respond to changes in society and its expectations, changes in crime and other threats to public safety, new technologies, and developments in best practice. Most reform to date has been piecemeal, as the book describes. The time has come to take a comprehensive look at every aspect of policing.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
A Crisis is an Opportunity
Seven Fundamental Questions
All Policing is Local
A Pathway to Community-based Policing Reform
Chapter One: How to Reform Policing in Divided Societies
Race in Policing
Why Northern Ireland?
‘Community Policing’ Belfast Style in the Mid-1990’s
The Independent Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland
Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland
How to Reform Policing
Chapter Two: Four Decades of Policing in the United States
‘Crime Fighters’ – Us versus Them
1990’s Massachusetts – Steps in the Right Direction
Multi-agency Initiatives
More to be Done
Chapter Three: How to Define Policing
Crime and the Community
‘Community Policing’
Policing as Community Safety
Policing as a Service
Policing and Human Rights
Chapter Four: How to Recruit Police
Girls Don’t Become Cops
How to Recruit Diversity
Why Join the Police?
The Workforce Crisis in Policing
Smarter Recruiting
Recruitment and Retention
Chapter Five: How to Train and Educate Police
The Academy Then
Academies Now
Beyond the Academy: Training in the Community
Recruit Probation
In-Service Training
Use of Force and De-escalation Training
Less Lethal Force
The Importance of Respect
Integrated Scenario Training
Continuing Professional Development
Chapter Six: How to Organize a Policing Service
The Primacy of Patrol
Small Police Departments
Disband? Compton and Camdem
Merging Police Departments
Hierarchies and Delegation
Integrating Sworn and Non-sworn Police Personnel
Chapter Seven: How to Achieve Multi-Agency Cooperation
The Criminal Justice System
Social Services
Multi-Agency Information Sharing: A Boston Example
Chapter Eight: How to Police the Police
Consent and Accountability
Democratic Accountability
Transparency
Performance, Discipline, and Complaints
A Tripartite Model of External Oversight
Chapter Nine: How to Lead a Policing Service
Who Should be Chief?
The Command Team?
A Police Board?
Openness to Advice
Chapter Ten: Time to Act
