"Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world's major cities, including New York, Bei…
"Police services across the country have undertaken major organizational reforms, significantly altering the structure and delivery of policing services. As a result, new strategies and programs have been designed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of police services. T…
The tenuous relationship between law enforcement professionals and the communities that they serve has along and complicated history. There are multiple stakeholders that are affected by the strength of therelationship between communities and the police that serve them, leading …
From its inception American Law Enforcement was built from a racially motivated system in which African Americans were subject to discriminatory treatment. Unfortunately, that treatment still persists in modern day policing, which is highlighted by the deaths of Eric Garner and …
This thesis explores the role of local defense forces in counterinsurgency campaigns, specifically the dynamic that exists between these groups and the state. In many instances, as in Afghanistan today, a state that is in the midst of fighting an insurgency lacks the capacity to…
City gangs within the United States have evolved in the past several decades to become sophisticated organizations with clear objectives beyond random crimes and territorial protection. Upon returning from a couple of tours in Iraq, I discovered the manner in which gangs recruit…
Policing terrorism in diverse communities is a major challenge for law enforcement in countries facing a significant, omnipresent, and continuous threat from domestic terrorism. Community policing, a policing innovation that has dominated policing for a few decades in democracie…