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In 2008 the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and Harvard Kennedy School (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) jointly embarked on an ambitious project – a second Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety. This first phase of this new Executive Session, which ran from 2008-2011, experienced debates about the efficacy of community policing, the main outgrowth of the first executive session, and the challenge of reducing crime and reducing fear while being viewed as legitimate and just by the community. 

We heard participants pose questions about the future of policing - the role and activities of officers and executives as well as the definition of police operations in the future were identified as priority conversations. The responsibility of police executives with political leaders to redefine mission with a specific ambition of reducing incarceration while reducing crime and fear was raised. Finally, all agreed there remains much work to be done around race – both inside police departments and with communities. In the Phase II session from 2011 to 2014, the members were tasked to complete not only the unfinished conversations, but also contribute to the body of published scholarship on these topics deemed critical to all stakeholders of police.

The Session meetings provoked scholars and practitioners to collaborate on a new series of papers that hope to influence the field in the way the Perspectives on Policing did for a previous generation. The series of papers from this second Executive Session is called New Perspectives in Policing.


New Perspectives in Policing


Sparrow, Malcolm K. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) September 2009.

Sparrow, Malcolm K. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) September 2009.

Bayley, David H. and Christine Nixon. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety), September, 2010.

Gascón, George and Todd Foglesong. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety), December 2010.

Sparrow, Malcolm K. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) January 2011.

Weisburd, David and Peter Neyroud. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) January 2011.

Stone, Christopher and Jeremy Travis. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) March 2011.

Braga, Anthony A., Edward A. Flynn, George L. Kelling, and Christine M.  Cole. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) March 2011.

Sklansky, David Alan. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) March 2011.

Stephens, Darrell W. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) June 2011.

Travis, Jeremy,  Ronald Davis, and Sarah Lawrence. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) July 2012.

Batts, Anthony W.,  Sean Michael Smoot,  and Ellen Scrivner. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) July 2012.

Davis, Edward F. , Alejandro A. Alves, and David Alan Sklansky. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) March 2014.

Ramsey, Charles H. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) June 2014.

Batts, Anthony W.,  Maddy deLone, and Darrel W. Stephens. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) August 2014.

Sparrow, Malcolm K. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) September 2014.

Meares, Tracey L. with Peter Neyroud. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) February 2015.

Sparrow, Malcolm K. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) March 2015.

Rahr, Sue and Stephen K. Rice. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) April 2015.

Braga, Anthony A. and Rod K. Brunson. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) May 2015.

Bayley, David H., Michael A. Davis and Ronald L. Davis. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) June 2015.

Flynn, Edward A. and Victoria Herrington. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) June 2015.

Dudley, Richard G. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) July 2015.

Braga, Anthony A. . New Perspectives in Policing (Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety) September 2015.