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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 232359"--Page [1].
Summary
"We describe today’s genuine police professionalism as "new" to distinguish it from the earlier rhetoric that mistakenly equated professionalism with an overreliance on technology, centralization of authority and insulation from the public. These features, found in much policing in the second half of the 20th century, do not define true professionalism.
The New Professionalism embraces the respectful engagement of citizens and communities that lies at the core of community policing. Those who continue to champion the aspirations of community policing should understand the New Professionalism as aligned with their ambitions. Moreover, the New Professionalism is clear about its expectations, whereas community policing has become so vague a term that it has lost its operational meaning. As Moore advised two decades ago, the New Professionalism focuses police attention on the very things that are most difficult to achieve:
accountability, legitimacy, innovation and national coherence. Community engagement is essential at least to the first two of those and perhaps all four."--Pages 20-21.