ABSTRACT
What is the most appropriate model for policing in 2012? It would seem that in our straitened post-9/11 world the Western ideal of community-based policing (CBP), with its so-called democratic, transparent, and inclusive attributes (Murphy, 2007), is becoming increasingly dicult to sustain-even in the developed countries. At the time of this writing in Australia (May 2012), the marshalling of police on the side of a mining company that is embroiled in an indigenous land rights issue in the Kimberley is but one of several contentious issues brewing in that country. e US Patriot Act, and similar legislation in other countries in support of the “War on Terror,” presupposes our willingness to trade civil rights and police transparency for greater perceived safety (Etzioni, 2005; Paul, 2003).
