Technology Is Playing an Expanding Role in Policing

摘要

Editor's note: This column is the first of two columns about technology's role in policing. The second column, which vill examine role of technology in building and sustaining community engagement with law enforcement and also assess the impact of technology on policing, will appear in the February 2011 issue of Police Chief magazine. The source for the figure and the table appearing in this column is Brian A Reaves, Local Police Departments, 2007, NCJ 23117, Bureau of Justice Statistics (December 2010).