ABSTRACT
Police reform initiatives in the developing world, especially those with a community-based, inclusive focus, face numerous obstacles and are likely to produce results falling far short of expectations (Davis, Henderson, & Merrick, 2003). Some of these roadblocks are fundamental and relatively obvious, such as the inherent problem in introducing democratically based programs where there is little history of such practices or support for change from government power brokers (see Perrott, 2012). Others are less obvious and remain “under the radar”; these more subterranean problems, however, may prove just as injurious to positive outcomes insofar as they remain untreated while their deleterious e€ects build cumulatively.
