NCJ Number
210235
Editor(s)
Carl J. Jensen III,
Bernard H. Levin
Date Published
January 2005
Length
46 pages
Annotation
This report presents a series of working papers assembled by the Futures Working Group (FWG) contributing to the future of policing in the 21st century and focusing on the Neighborhood-Driven Policing (NDP) model.
Abstract
In 2002, the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Society of Police Futurists International (PFI) jointly created the Futures Working Group (FWG). The goal was to form an organization or group to develop forecasts and strategies to ethically maximize the effectiveness of local, State, Federal, and international law enforcement bodies in the 21st century. This report, consisting of nine working papers was initiated at a FWG meeting to offer those agencies and departments ways to create their own preferred future. In this first volume report, working papers address the following topic: Neighborhood-Driven Policing (NDP). In the NDP model, the police function as servants of the people or as consultants, providing information on “what works” in the prevention and solution of crime. NDP presumes that the neighborhood will serve as a resource. Under NDP, neighborhood members are the senior partners, and they make many of the decisions that historically have been made by the police. References