Police Administration

This is a treatise written for the proper understanding of the social structure of a community and the severe demands it places on police work and maintenance of law and order. Police machinery in most countries of the world has not kept pace with modern demands. It has developed no effective technique to master the burden which modern social and industrial conditions impose. Clinging to old traditions, bound by old practices which business and industry long ago discarded, employing a personnel poorly adapted to its purposes, it grinds away on its perfunctory task without self-criticism, without imagination, and with little initiative.

From this general indictment the police department cannot be expected to perform the tasks entrusted to them. The treatise helps in these areas and makes the job of police administration an informed one instead one based on mere precedence.