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"December 2010"--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 231096"--Page [1].
Summary
"Policing is unlikely to become more affordable solely through more cost-effective delivery of the same set of services departments currently provide. Police departments today have to develop a new and different kind of bottom line, one that resonates with the communities most in need of safety and justice. The steps outlined here for managing that process — reducing costs, managing demand, revaluing policing and re-engineering operations — may not solve all of the emerging problems of affordability in policing. Surely there is no blueprint or universal formula for the re-engineering of police departments in a country with such a decentralized system for policing and public safety. But these four steps provide a framework for more deliberate experimentation within individual departments. They also create a framework around which researchers can help police executives study and learn more from their innovations in a time of tight budgets."--Page 17.