ABSTRACT
In his widely acclaimed best seller, “The Road Less Traveled,” M. Scott Peck observes the simplest of truths, “Life is difficult” (Peck, 1978). Although much in American life has returned to normal, September 11, 2001 obviously intensified the degree of that difficulty beyond anything that local police administrators ever could have imagined. Much has changed for countless local agencies, and there is ample room for further speculation and prediction as to the directions that local policing will ultimately take in the continuing wake of that tragedy.
