Changing the Guard

David Bayley is Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Police for the Future (Oxford, 1994) and What Works in Policing (Oxford, 1998). A specialist in international criminal justice, he is currently a member of the International Oversight Commission for the reform of the police of Northern Ireland and is writing the United Nation's program for community policing in the rebuilding and reform of police in peacekeeping operations.

• Preface ; 1. Problem and Opportunity ; 2. Democracy and Police Reform ; 3. U.S. Programs and Policy ; 4. Strategies of Reform ; 5. Security and Reform ; 6. Managing Assistance ; 7. Evaluating Impact ; 8. Organizing for Success ; Appendix: Executive summary of recommendations ; Index

"Changing the Guard explores the unnumbered side streets of US foreign police assistance and reveals a work of programmatic chaos that officials admit is out of control. Beyond its value as a bureaucratic "who done it," the book offers important insights into improving the delivery of police assistance, in particular that security need not be achieved at the expense of democratic reform."--Robert Perito, author of Where Is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him?: America's Search for a Postconflict Stability Force