1. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Section V Getting the Job Done… Through Others Chapter 17 Learning from the Past; Looking to the Future

2. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Megatrends: Looking Back and to the Future We are moving from an industrial society to an information society. We are moving from forced technology to high tech/high touch. We are moving from a national economy to a world economy. We are moving from a short-term orientation to a long-term orientation. We are moving from centralization to decentralization. We are moving from institutional help to self-help. Today’s leaders need to be facilitators rather than order givers. We are moving from hierarchies to networks. We are moving (physically) from the north to the south. We are moving from an either/or orientation to one of multiple options.

3. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Law Enforcement for the Future Changes needed in management skills –People skills over technical competence Changes in officers and the public –Departments now have more minority officers, better- educated officers and those spanning 2–3 generations. –The public has also grown increasingly diverse.

4. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Trends Shaping the Future of Policing Changes in technology Changes in societal values An integrated global economy Growth of militant Islam Redistribution of the world’s population Decline of privacy Longer life expectancies Continuing urbanization The spread of specialization A vanishing work ethic

5. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning The Impact of Technology, Now and in the Future Technology will help –Solve crimes –Prevent crimes –Facilitate crimes that haven’t yet been conceived Technology is changing –The way police departments are operated –How grant requests are formatted –What is requested in the local operating budget

6. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Critical Issues in Policing Use of force Management of mass demonstrations Violent crime Patrol response to a suicide bomb threat Resolving conflict and minimizing use of force Police planning for an influenza pandemic

7. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Critical Issues in Policing (cont.) Reducing violent crime in America Local immigration enforcement Hot spots enforcement Violent crime and the economic crisis Up next: gangs and guns

8. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Other Major Challenges Facing 21st-Century Law Enforcement The drug problem Gang violence Terrorism

9. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Futuristics 1.Social and economic conditions (size and age of the population, immigration patterns and nature of employment and lifestyle characteristics) 2.Shifts in the number and types of crimes and disorder challenges 3.Developments in the criminal justice system itself, including community involvement in all aspects of the system

10. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Basic Principles of Futuristics 1.The unity or interconnectedness of reality 2.The significance of ideas 3.The crucial importance of time

11. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Fundamental Premises of Futurists The future is not predictable. The future is not predetermined. Future outcomes can be influenced by individual choice.

12. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Fundamental Goals of Futurists Form perceptions of the future (the possible) Study likely alternatives (the probable) Make choices to bring about particular events (the preferable)

13. © 2012 Delmar, Cengage Learning Possible Futures of Community Policing Community-oriented government Wealthy neighborhoods policed by private forces A proactive division coexisting with a reactive division in a department Robotic devices responding to violence Nearly all public places under video surveillance