ABSTRACT
Police departments have increased their investments in technology and the results are beginning to show. Robert Davis, director of research at the Police Executive Research Forum, said officers are becoming more professional in how they operate and that includes how they apply technology. This book has been about the past—and the future—of American policing. In many ways, the future of policing is here today. In other ways, we can only imagine at this point what we will have the capacity to do in the future. But what we do know is that crime fighting and policing are rapidly changing and discovering new and innovative ways to make communities safer while being better able to predict crime, respond to emergency situations, and make the lives of criminal offenders more perilous.
