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Receptivity to police innovation : a tale of two cities / Stephen D. Mastrofski and Dennis Rosenbaum.

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1 online resource (10 pages)

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Author(s) affiliated with: University of Illinois, Center for Research in Law and Justice and George Mason University, Center for Justice Leadership and Management.
Topical report. The project supported by National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

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"Innovation is widely thought to be the key to success in police departments, yet police are often conceived as traditional and resistant to the changes that innovation requires. Recent decades have witnessed much interest among police leaders and policy makers in various innovations, ranging from new applications of information technology (intelligence-led policing) to administrative changes (affirmative action) to strategic changes (Compstat and community policing). Despite a number of studies of the impact of such recent innovations, there have been very few investigations of the receptivity of police to innovation. Who is most and least receptive to innovation? What kind of environment for innovation do police departments provide? Which innovations are most and least welcome? In sum, what is the environment for innovation in American municipal police organizations? This Platform Project report describes a preliminary effort to test some popular views about the orientation of the police to innovation. It compares the responses of police officers in two large municipal police agencies, considering how the police feel about their organization’s environment to support innovation and about their department’s orientation to specific innovations."--Page 1.

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