Policing 2020: the future of policing
This document provides some clear perspective on the following elements and outlines the discussion questions used to generate the points summarized:
1. The evolving policing landscape
2. The police mission
3. Responsibilities of policing
4. Policing delivery & governance
One essential aspect of this discussion involves the need to recognize that conventional approaches to the public police mandate/mission will need to evolve. Other service providers, including local authorities, private security, civilian employees, and corporations will become better positioned to deliver certain aspects of what public police organizations hold responsibility for in the current scheme.
There is a constant refrain that public policing arrangements are no longer sustainability. This reality exists outside of the immediate economic pressures as it needs to be contextualized within the framework of steadily declining crime rates in virtually every jurisdiction.
Pressure to innovate in policing is difficult, remembering Dorothy Guyot's image of "bending granite" as the overarching metaphor. And when civilian governing authorities, police executives, and police associations/unions all represent "elites" that must be somehow accommodated the process is manifestly complicated. This does not even factor in the public perspective on what is needed for a viable model of policing for the future.
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