This study was undertaken to examine the team policing experience on a case-by-case basis and obtain some preliminary indications of why team policing has worked well in some places and less well in others. This report aligns with a goal of the Police Foundation to provide better information about improvement programs developed in police departments around the country. This report can be used as an aid for mayors, planning directors, and police chiefs deciding whether to implement a team policing approach in their community.
This report concludes that establishing team policing in a community demands complete commitment and the available resources to manage such a complex process of institutional and community change.
Original Title
Sherman, L. W., Et. Al. - Team Policing: Seven Case Studies
This study was undertaken to examine the team policing experience on a case-by-case basis and obtain some preliminary indications of why team policing has worked well in some places and less well in others. This report aligns with a goal of the Police Foundation to provide better information about improvement programs developed in police departments around the country. This report can be used as an aid for mayors, planning directors, and police chiefs deciding whether to implement a team policing approach in their community.
This report concludes that establishing team policing in a community demands complete commitment and the available resources to manage such a complex process of institutional and community change.
This study was undertaken to examine the team policing experience on a case-by-case basis and obtain some preliminary indications of why team policing has worked well in some places and less well in others. This report aligns with a goal of the Police Foundation to provide better information about improvement programs developed in police departments around the country. This report can be used as an aid for mayors, planning directors, and police chiefs deciding whether to implement a team policing approach in their community.
This report concludes that establishing team policing in a community demands complete commitment and the available resources to manage such a complex process of institutional and community change.
Team
Policing
Principal Authors
Lawrence W. Sherman
Catherine H. Milton
Thomas V. Kelly
Contributing Authors
Thomas F. McBride
Susan Michaelson
Robert Wasserman
Foreword by
James Q. Wilson
Police Foundation
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Washington, D.C. 20036The Police Foundation is a non-profit
funding agency established in 1970
by the Ford Foundation to help
American police agencies realize their fullest
potential by developing and funding
promising programs of innovation and improvement.
The Foundation’s research findings
are published as an information service.
Conclusions and recommendations
are those of the authors and not necessarily
those of the Police Foundation.
Copyright® August, 1973. All Rights Reserved.
Library of Congress Catalogue No. 73-87136
Police Foundation
1015 Eighteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036Lawrence W. Sherman is a graduate student of sociology at Yale
University and a consultant to the Police Foundation. He formerly ser-
ved in the Inspectional Services Bureau and the Police Commissioner's
Office, New York City Police Department, and has also been a con-
sultant to the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department. He received
the B.A. from Denison University and the M.A, from the University of
Chicago, both in 1970, and the Diploma in Criminology from Cam-
bridge University in 1973.
Catherine H. Milton is an Assistant Director of the Police Foundation.
She previously served on the staffs of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police and the President's Commission on Student Unrest,
and worked as a reporter for The Boston Globe, Author of several
publications including Women in Policing, she graduated from Mount
Holyoke College in 1964.
Thomas Y. Kelly is a free-lance writer, who formerly served as Direc-
tor of National Affairs for VISTA. He is a frequent contributor to the
Washingtonian magazine.
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