Archive March 2025

The opportunity of crisis

Policing is in some ways in a perma-state of crisis over funding, yet the future is looking particularly bleak, given the increasing competitive pressures on the UK’s public service financing. As witnessed after 2010, when funding cuts dramatically changed policing (reducing neighbourhood and roads policing capacity and capabilities), even more…

Trends in policing research: a timeline

Enlightenment Policing and crime related research mainly comes originally from (academic discipline-wise) sociological roots. Yet things have shifted over the years, so here we explore a little of that timeline to see what was and where we may be heading next. Crime has always been with us, but if we…