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Law Enforcement Innovation and the Rule of Law: Comparative and Historical Perspectives

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Police Innovation and Control of the Police

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Community policing is being hailed as the most important innovation in recent law enforcement history. Reportedly, “community policing is the new philosophy of professional law enforcement in the world’s industrial democracies. [It] has emerged as the major strategic alternative to traditional practices that are now widely regarded as having failed” (Bayley, 1988:225).

This paper was supported by the NIJ Fellowship Program via Grant 88-IJCX-0026 from the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to Georgetown University; sabbatical funding from Georgetown University; and a travel grant from the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, Georgetown University Law Center. I thank Robert Bell and Lisa McDonald for reviews of drafts of this paper. Points of view or opinions are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position on policies of the U.S. Department of Justice or Georgetown University.

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McDonald, W.F. (1993). Law Enforcement Innovation and the Rule of Law: Comparative and Historical Perspectives. In: Green, L., Weisburd, D., Uchida, C. (eds) Police Innovation and Control of the Police. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8312-3_8

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