Leading Our Most Important Resource: Police Personnel Issues in the Year 2020

The heart and soul of any profession is its people. While many of the personnel issues that confront police leaders today will continue into the future, new challenges will undoubtedly emerge. In this paper, the authors have attempted to envision personnel issues that will affect U.S. police departments by the year 2020. Studies dealing with the future are by their very nature speculative. However, every effort was made to ensure that the forecasts contained in this report were built upon solid ground.

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Federal Sponsor Agency: BJA

Provider: BJA Law Enforcement Forecasting Group

Publication Date: 2013