Macro-strategic trends which originate in the external environment and include population diversity, accountability, financial issues, and technology; and micro-organizational issues which are rooted within police organizations and involve community policing policy, strategic management, workplace diversity, disabled employees, the specialist career, contracting out for specialists, and resource sharing. Police organizations cannot control the macro-environmental trends, but it is possible to adapt to both trends and issues. Creating systematic processes to facilitate learning is one way to address this problem. Four systematic processes for learning offer a high potential for transferability to policing: processes for generating a holistic view of the organization; systems for attaining and using information about the external environment; systems for facilitating learning from alliances with other organizations; and processes for questioning assumptions. 7 references