Bureaucratic changes present challenges and opportunities, discuss the two recent national innovations White indicates as demonstrating this point. Explain working group and why you think it is important to bringing about bureaucratic changes

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

• The first innovation is community policing which began as an idea and spread with support from the federal government, research from university criminal justice departments, creation of community associations and partnerships and regional organizations, and participation of law enforcement executives who oriented themselves to the task of increasing police effectiveness.
• Homeland security presents the same opportunity, and community police networks are ideal for the functions it requires.
• The second recent innovation is the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP).
• The concept of information gathering, analysis, and sharing began with the Global Advisory Committee to the U.S. attorney general.
• It moved to a working group of executives from all levels of law enforcement.
• As the working group developed ideas for carrying the concept out, groups like the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) reviewed and amended the recommendations.
• Like community policing, it was a national team effort of many different law enforcement agencies.
• When the NCISP was unveiled and endorsed by the IACP, a multitude of police agencies, law enforcement associations, intelligence organizations, and associated bureaucracies endorsed and adopted it.
• Working group is a term used in the federal government for a group of subject matter experts who gather to suggest solutions to common problems.