Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas examines how security problems are addressed in the United States and Latin America, asserting that understand

In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy

The events of September 11, 2001, combined with a pattern of increased crime and violence in the 1980s and mid-1990s in the Americas, has crystallized the need

The events of September 11, 2001, combined with a pattern of increased crime and violence in the 1980s and mid-1990s in the Americas, has crystallized the need

The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected of