This panel will highlight current and future trends including (but not limited to) social, economic, technological, environmental, political, and legal arenas that are and should be impacting the vision of policing in the future.
As with many futures discussions, these considerations are likely to raise more questions than provide answers, since some of these trends will have direct effects on public safety in the global community. The difficulty emerges as to when, where, and why various levers may be relevant. The concept of moving from vision to action in policing requires assessment of both opportunities and challenges. By examining trends in public safety, citizen and societal concerns for privacy, civil and human rights, and other societal-level dynamics, some of these dilemmas become clearer. This panel will examine these issues with an eye toward intelligence, security, and law enforcement practices that the future may hold.
Who should attend: Security professionals, military and law enforcement personnel, business and industry professionals.
What you’ll learn: Identification and discussion of emerging trends and the debates surrounding the implications of these trends for privacy, security, and public safety in the near-term future.
How this new knowledge can be applied: This knowledge can assist individuals in determining and judging for themselves possible, probable, and preferable futures for their communities, their businesses, and themselves through assessment of current and future trends that will be discussed.
John Jarvis, FBI criminologist and chair of the PFI/FBI Futures Working Group, Quantico, Virginia
Joseph Schafer, faculty member at Southern Illinois University, vice chair of the PFI/FBI Futures Working Group, Carbondale, Illinois
Bud Levin, faculty member at Blue Ridge Community College, staff member of the Waynesboro, Virginia, Police Department, Fisherville, Virginia
Michael Buerger, faculty member, Bowling Green State University; member of PFI/FBI Futures Working Group, Bowling Green, Ohio
Al Youngs, Esq., former division chief, Lakewood Colorado Police; founding member, PFI/FBI Futures Working Group; former president, Police Futurists International, 2011 conference program committee, Lakewood, Colorado