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What Makes a Police Agency a Business?

So how can a police department be anything like a business? Lights, sirens, good guys, bad guys, TV shows and movies, the 6 o’clock news; it all looks too sporadic and out of hand to be anything like a business. We know the cops are there (not to everyone’s liking of course); they come when […]

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The Business of Policing

Many years ago, I found myself and some friends talking to a veteran police officer about what type of college education would be most helpful for becoming an officer. As genuine ‘wanna be’ teenagers, we were all convinced that police administration degrees (now called criminal justice degrees) would be the obvious choice. I will never […]

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