The role of balancing individual and collective rights is one role that, like many others, shifts over time. By taking on the role of balancing individual and collective rights, police maintain a delicate balance between crime control and due process (Walker & Katz, 2002). If too much discretion is allowed, police may gravitate toward crime control and be faced with a moral dilemma, in which there are two decisions presented to an officer, each with undesirable consequences. This phenomenon is more commonly referred to as the Dirty Harry problem, when an officer has to ask himself how far and unethical they are willing to go to achieve a morally good end (Klockars, 1980).
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The future of policing is evidence-based (Weisburd and Neyroud, 2011), and although police agencies have a reputation for not wanting to work with the ivory tower of academia, that appears to becoming less apparent over time (Engel and Whalen, 2010). Police-academic partnerships are the future of policing as long as police are willing to share data with academics and as long as academics are willing to be patient and help implement new tactics. Change is scary and there tends to be organizational resistance when it comes to change, but change is on its way (Engel & Whalen, …show more content…
James Wilson and George Kelling (1982), after having published Broken Windows twenty-some years ago, are supporters of the shift toward community policing. Samuel Walker (1984), although not one hundred percent convinced of the Broken Windows theory believing Wilson and Kelling are holding onto a fantasy of what police should be, recognizes that American policing has change drastically over the past twenty-something years and is most research driven than ever before. David Bayley (2008), after outlining all the big reform ideas he feels have been the most significant since 1967 in his piece published “Police reform: Who done it?” believes America is the source of the biggest and best new ideas and innovations of police work because it has harnessed science, focused on police behavior, and its efficacy and effectiveness is evaluated by an outside non police entity. Dennis Nowicki (1998) may have perceived mixed messages in the past, but it is becoming clearer to police when and how they should act in certain circumstances, and what tailor made role they should assume at any given time in a particular circumstance. John Eck and William Spelman (1987), through numerous case studies, found that a problem oriented approach can drastically reduce the amount of perception of fear of crime, and would agree community oriented and problem solving combined with other evidence based tools and tactics,
The role of serving the community is the most important role for police …show more content…
The future of policing is evidence-based (Weisburd and Neyroud, 2011), and although police agencies have a reputation for not wanting to work with the ivory tower of academia, that appears to becoming less apparent over time (Engel and Whalen, 2010). Police-academic partnerships are the future of policing as long as police are willing to share data with academics and as long as academics are willing to be patient and help implement new tactics. Change is scary and there tends to be organizational resistance when it comes to change, but change is on its way (Engel & Whalen, …show more content…
James Wilson and George Kelling (1982), after having published Broken Windows twenty-some years ago, are supporters of the shift toward community policing. Samuel Walker (1984), although not one hundred percent convinced of the Broken Windows theory believing Wilson and Kelling are holding onto a fantasy of what police should be, recognizes that American policing has change drastically over the past twenty-something years and is most research driven than ever before. David Bayley (2008), after outlining all the big reform ideas he feels have been the most significant since 1967 in his piece published “Police reform: Who done it?” believes America is the source of the biggest and best new ideas and innovations of police work because it has harnessed science, focused on police behavior, and its efficacy and effectiveness is evaluated by an outside non police entity. Dennis Nowicki (1998) may have perceived mixed messages in the past, but it is becoming clearer to police when and how they should act in certain circumstances, and what tailor made role they should assume at any given time in a particular circumstance. John Eck and William Spelman (1987), through numerous case studies, found that a problem oriented approach can drastically reduce the amount of perception of fear of crime, and would agree community oriented and problem solving combined with other evidence based tools and tactics,