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Improving Community Outcomes and Social Equity Through Leveraged Police Leadership

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This chapter examines the traditional pathways to leadership in policing that have dominated the past few decades, as well as the parallel systemic changes that have put increasing tension upon them. In departing from those traditional patterns, each contributing author offers reflections on how new trends and notable distinctions have become evident in practice over recent years. We conclude these reflections by zeroing in on three “distinguishing leadership characteristics” that most clearly depart from those past patterns, and devote each of this chapter sections to exploring the meaning, the evidence, and the significance of each. We showcase four featured profiles, none of which is limited to a single individual, but rather, permits us to examine the evidence of distinctive characteristics in action, and in the interactions among like-minded and mutually reinforcing teams. Each and every one of these teams has our unbridled respect, and our deep gratitude for their willingness to be held up to the light of our own discussions in this chapter. We close this chapter by linking back to the general fields of leadership and policing research, education and development, and offer some observations on how these fields may need to recognize and better prepare for the emergence of the distinguishing characteristics we expose, and the growing implications of the social conditions that are increasingly driving them to the surface.

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  1. Global Network for Community Safety and Journal of Community Safety and Well-being, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Norm Taylor

  2. Community Safety Knowledge Network, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Cal Corley

  3. Edmonton Police Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Dale McFee

  4. Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Matthew Torigian

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  1. Tasmanian Inst. Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron

  2. Faculty of Health and Community Studies, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    James Clover

  3. School of Business, Law and Social Science, Abertay University, Dundee, UK

    Denise Martin

  4. Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Richard F. Southby

  5. Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Nick Crofts

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Taylor, N., Corley, C., McFee, D., Torigian, M. (2022). Improving Community Outcomes and Social Equity Through Leveraged Police Leadership. In: Bartkowiak-Théron, I., Clover, J., Martin, D., Southby, R.F., Crofts, N. (eds) Law Enforcement and Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83913-0_7

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