There's been a whole lot of interesting thinking lately about law enforcement tactics and operations.
Alex Olesker over at i-Con has an interesting post on the police tactical operations classic Sound Doctrine. Law enforcement in general, due to the sheer decentralized nature of American policing as well as the highly specialized skill-set of large-scale police operations (SWAT, emergency, etc) is pretty skimpy on formalized literature. There isn't much of an equivalent of the military literature and journals that drive defense debate. Sound Doctrine, a look at tactics written in the style of a 1990s Marine Corps field manual, is one of the few standouts. Alex looks at how Heal's document reflects principles of information access and human network operations that are regularly discussed at the i-Con blog.
This feeds in general to some of the work at Fred Leland has been doing at his Law Enforcement and Security Consulting blog on putting red-teaming and order-of-battle analysis into law enforcement practice. Lastly, check out John B. Alexander (a longtime pioneer of thinking about law enforcement-military convergence)'s new monograph at Joint Special Operations University on the convergence of civilian law enforcement and military special operations. Alexander is provocative and astute, as always.
As predicted by many, a convergence of threats on the operational and tactical levels between crime and war is resulting in a shift in how law enforcement thinks and operates. This thinking is going to incorporate both old and new military and law enforcement methods and organization, globally.
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