Note
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"May 1989"--Page 1.
"This is one in a series of reports originally developed with some of the leading figures in American policing during their periodic meetings at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The reports are published so that Americans interested in the improvement and the future of policing can share in the information and perspectives that were part of extensive debates at the School's Executive Session on Policing (1985-1991)."--Page 1.
"NCJ 115950"--Page 10.
"U.S. GOVERNMENT PRlNTlNG OFFICE: 1989-241-714/80035"--Page [1]
Summary
"Police are now adapting to changes taking place in American society. One of those changes is the reversal in the trend to centralization in government and the reemergence of neighborhoods as a source of governance. This change raises a hot issue for police. Are they agents or servants of neighborhoods? While we have emphasized restructuring police and increasing their accountability to neighborhoods, we do not see them as servants of neighborhoods. Police protect other values, as well as neighborhood values. What are those values? At least three. First, public police must be distributed fairly across cities on the basis of neighborhood need, not neighborhood political clout. Second, police must be able to maintain organizational integrity. Police departments must have the right to develop and maintain their own personnel, administrative, and technological capacities without political interference. Finally, they must defend minority interests and civil rights against the more parochial interests of some neighborhoods."--Page 9.