Less Is More: North American Case Studies on the Amalgamation of Policing

Abstract

American policing is mired in a stratified model of inefficiency involving nearly 12,500 standalone municipal police agencies. The future of policing requires increased attention to cybercrime, transnational crime, terrorism, and infrastructure protection that cannot be accommodated by small standalone police agencies. Canada shares similar experiences in the origins, maturation, social conditions, and opportunities in policing with success in amalgamating police services. This thesis uses comparative case-study research of successful and failed attempts at amalgamating police services in Canada and America. Analysis and recommendations show that amalgamation can best be achieved through large agency contracting, sheriff services, and state policing. Amalgamation of state policing is recommended based on Canadian case studies and American case studies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 27, 2018
Accession Number
AD1046857

Entities

People

  • George S. Johnstone

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Counterterrorism
  • Crime
  • Criminal Investigations
  • Criminals
  • Criminology
  • Cyberattacks
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Human Population
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Police
  • Public Administration
  • Public Policy
  • Residential Section
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Victims

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.