For interested readers: the latest installment of the Lawfare Research Paper Series. In it, Harvard Law student Nathan Wood examines the phenomena of community policing, on the one hand, and police militarization, on the other—having in mind an emerging view that the former represents the necessary antidote to the latter.
Certainly an interesting an idea. And we may be at an inflection point, where enough on both sides of the spectrum would be interested to try it, that we may see a few different systems emerge.