Goethe University Frankfurt Policing Paper

Policing in America has never been more uncertain. There are national efforts to reform policing. Issues such as use of force policies, community policing, cultural awareness, use of technology are all in the daily news. 

We have spent time scratching the surface on these topics and speculating on what will the future of Policing in America look like? How will legislative changes like the elimination of “qualified immunity” or removing protections like “police officer bill of rights” impact current officers or the recruitment of new officers? How will police use of force policy change if local, state and federal law changes impacting the Supreme Court standard of “objective reasonableness” when it comes to an 

officer to use force including deadly force? How will technology like body cameras impact policing in a positive or negative way? Will decades of efforts to employ a “community policing” approach to how the police work with diverse communities be changed to a new model of policing and what would that look like moving forward?