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"March 2011"--Page 1.
"This is one in a series of papers that will be published as a result of Harvard’s Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety. In the early 1980s, an Executive Session on Policing helped resolve many law enforcement issues of the day. It produced a number of papers and concepts that revolutionized policing. Thirty years later, law enforcement has changed and NIJ and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government are again collaborating to help resolve law enforcement issues of the day."--Page 1.
"NCJ 232676"--Page [1].
Summary
"The first part of this paper describes some of the ideas getting the most attention today in police management circles and the underappreciated ways in which they constitute a return to the ideal of police professionalism. The second part briefly speculates about why professionalism, so recently discredited, seems to be coming back. The third part sounds a note of caution, warning that, despite changes since the 1970s, there are still reasons for police departments to resist the pull of professionalism. The fourth and final part suggests that the competing ideal of community policing, for all its ambiguity and limitations, may deserve a longer
run."--Page 2.