NCJ Number
102264
Journal
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Volume: 55 Issue: 7 Dated: (July 1986) Pages: 1-9
Date Published
1986
Length
9 pages
Annotation
The most significant issues police agencies must confront prior to 1990 include public financing, changing crime patterns, personnel problems, organizational structure, crime control, and the assimilation of high technology.
Abstract
In August 1985, graduates of the National Executive Institute identified the problems they deemed most critical to their police agencies prior to 1990. Respondents included police officials from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. Limited public financing will require agencies to allocate resources to the most productive areas, to develop collaborative relationships with other community agencies, and foster citizen support for social control. Changing crime patterns will be due to computer crime, illegal drug consumption, and a declining population group aged 14-25. Other issues include the development of alternatives to deadly force; the adaptation of organizational structure to production requirements; the application of high technology to police communications, services, and decisionmaking; and the provision of quality training under limited budgets. Other issues impacting police are prison and court crowding, personnel problems, urban unrest, labor management relations, and terrorism.