An introductory chapter argues that ambiguity regarding the police mission is central to the current debate regarding police management strategies and concludes that police agencies should experiment with at least three macrostrategies rather than rejecting one or more. These three approaches are the professional efficiency model, problem-oriented policing, and community policing. The next 12 chapters are organized around the matrix developed for the seminar series. Six chapters examine six endemic issues in policing: matching structure to objectives, community alliance, enriching traditional roles, the activity trap, creativity with accountability, and stability amid change. Six additional chapters discuss management perspectives that can be used to address these endemic issues: alternative futures, strategic approaches, human resource issues, technological and human resource management, organizational communication, and executive responsibility. The final chapter uses concepts of genetics to presents a conceptual framework for examining social change in general and the evolution of policing in particular. Figures, chapter reference lists, author biographies, and appended conceptual framework