Overcoming Challenges to Changes in Smart Policing Initiatives

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Bureau of Justice Assistance Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) sites continue to produce positive research findings regarding the effectiveness of innovative evidence-based policing strategies, using credible and rigorous research designs and predictive analysis. However, the successes of these sites are rarely realized without addressing and overcoming challenges and obstacles when implementing Smart Policing. For this roundtable, law enforcement practitioners and researchers will discuss four major challenges currently faced by SPI sites – leadership and staff turnover, collaboration and outside stakeholder involvement, sustainability and organizational change, and use of research and analysis. Roundtable presenters will discuss the impacts of these challenges to Smart Policing and various strategies and approaches SPI sites have used to overcome these challenges.

Sub Unit

• Area VIII: Roundtables

Chair

• James "Chip" R. Coldren, Jr., CNA

Discussants

• Kevin Bryant, Benedictine College

• Catherine McNamee, Bureau of Justice Assistance

• Robert Nash Parker, University of California, Riverside

• Lynn Vincentnathan, University of Texas - Pan American

• David Weisburd, George Mason University / Hebrew University

• Michael D. White, Arizona State University

• John L. Worrall, University of Texas at Dallas