Is an all-hazards approach right for your real-time policing initiative?
Several Flock Safety representatives spoke at a forum this week that was hosted at Naval Station Everett. Over 80 police, fire, emergency management, commercial, and elected officials attended. They were all from agencies in and around Snohomish County, Washington.
If you are considering establishing a real-time policing initiative, consider whether a real-time public safety initiative is more important to your community and region. Would directly involving the fire service and emergency management add more value to the community? How would involving commercial partners look in an established real-time system?
Many agencies do precisely what they've heard they should do. Research the need, develop their real-time policing program accordingly, and scale it appropriately. But does that potentially place the agency in a policing rut of traditional thought if other stakeholders are not involved in the initial or scaling process?
American scholar John Dewey said, "The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs."
Don't allow yourself or your agency to get stuck in a mental rut of policing when researching and advancing its initiatives. Not every program needs an outside-the-box approach, but many would benefit.
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