ABSTRACT
The chapter takes a second look at the theories of management embraced by law enforcement agencies during the last few decades. A leading hypothesis for organizational structure for police organizations has not surfaced, although many ideas emerged after Weber’s classical bureaucratic model appeared in the early twentieth century. The chapter suggests that the modern era of policing operates under neo-Weberian principles in that traditional administrative systems have only been strengthened by modernizing managerial strategies and operations over the last several decades. This includes Total Quality Management, embraced by law enforcement agencies a few decades ago, and New Public Management, which adopted the idea that new concepts about management were eventually rejected by public and police management as an academic exercise and fancy.
