Reimagining Police

About this book

Reimagining Police: Privatizing Law and Order takes on one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary policing reform. Lisa Stolzenberg and Stewart J. D'Alessio examine the growing role of private security, contracted enforcement, and hybrid public-private models across the United States and abroad. The authors weigh efficiency and innovation against accountability, civil rights, and democratic control — and ask whether the traditional municipal police model is the only, or the best, way to deliver public safety. A rigorous, thought-provoking contribution to the debate over the future of policing.