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7 Police Prac. & Res. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/gppr7 and id is 1 raw text is: Police Practice and Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 1-2 From the Editor-in-Chief Highlights of Volume 7, Issue 1 In this first issue of 2006 of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal (PPR), the contributors have grappled with a galaxy of globally significant themes: 'Proactive Policing,' 'Elements Underlying Community Policing,' 'Erosion of the Rule of Law,' 'Race as a Tool in the War on Drugs,' and 'Police Legal Advisors.' Reviews deal with other important themes like 'Colonial Concepts, Democratic Compulsions' in Indian police and'Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement.' Curtis Clarke ('Proactive Policing: Standing on the Shoulders of Community-Based Policing') has researched what PPR holds dear to its heart: collaboration between research and practice for enhancing the quality of police service. He analyzes Edmonton Police Service's (Alberta, Canada) efforts 'to implement a model of proactive policing.' For this police agency it is an 'operational shift' which represents 'a logical transition from ... community policing and problem-oriented policing.' Caran Colvin and Angeline Goh ('Elements Underlying Community Policing: Validation of the Construct') continue the underlying message of Curtis Clarke's paper, namely, collaboration between police research and practice through a study which'was part ofa larger project that evaluated the effects of computer technology on community policing in a large US city located on the west coast.' 'The study,' as the authors observe, 'represents a bridge between theory and practice that could be useful in redirecting the confusion about what community policing means.' Kposowa ('Erosion of the Rule of Law as a Contributing Factor in Civil Conflict: The Case of Sierra Leone') contributes to another goal of PPR: bringing the police experi- ence-oriented lessons from far and wide. Analyzing the'case of Sierra Leone,'he brings home the sobering lesson that a dictator's self-serving actions undermined 'both the regular armed forces and the Sierra Leone Police' which 'made future civil wars almost unavoidable in the country.' Kposowa's research warns unthinking rulers against undermining 'state legitimacy and the rule of law.' The issue of'legitimacy' raised in Kposowa's paper is carried forward in a different context by Lichtenberg ('Driving While Black (DWB): Examining Race as a Tool in the War on Drugs'). On the basis of the data'collected by the Maryland State Police (MSP)' who were instructed to 'collect data on all searches conducted between 1995 and 1997 ISSN 1561-4263 print/ISSN 1477-271X online @ 2006 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/15614260600579458

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