Division between the police and the communities they serve is growing at an alarming rate. Cities throughout this country are calling to defund the police and police officers are cast as villains even when their actions are warranted. The Community Policing philosophy was develo…
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The purpose of this study was to examine whether community policing models support and contribute to officer job satisfaction through work-related variables, such as skill variety, task identity, autonomy, and feedback, which enable officers to feel good about their work. The hi…
This dissertation explores the growing field of study around Maritime Security. While an increasingly common sub-heading in American naval strategy documents, maritime security operations are largely framed around individual threats (i.e. counter-piracy, counter-terrorism, count…
Since the day Saudi Arabia was founded, its highly centralised and paramilitary police organisation remained immune to scrutiny, and police performance and their relationship with the public have remained uncharted territories. But lately, in response to leaking reports about ri…
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…