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"February 2015"--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 248411"--Page [4].
Summary
"Rightful policing attempts to account for what people say that they care about when they assess individual officer behavior as well as agency conduct generally. It differs from lawful policing and effective policing in at least two ways. First, rightful policing does not depend on the lawfulness of police conduct. Rather, it depends primarily on the procedural justice or fairness of that conduct. Second, rightful policing does not depend on an assessment of police as ever more effective crime fighters (although it turns out that rightful policing often leads to more compliance with the law and therefore lower crime rates). This third way may well help us move toward police governance that is substantively, as opposed to rhetorically, democratic. Finally, rightful policing is better for cops on the street. Its precepts not only encourage the people whom police deal with on a daily basis to comply with the law and
police directives, they also encourage behaviors in encounters that tend to keep police safe."--Page 3.