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The experience with law enforcement also shows similar models of paradigm shift. The leaders within the industry typically posed resistance to changes. Changes instead were driven by the needs of other stakeholders -- by politicians who shifted laws, funding and emphasis; by communities that demanded specific paradigm shifts such as improving the ethnic diversity of police forces. The War on Drugs is one example of externally-driven paradigm shift. Politicians drove this change in emphasis that shifted the priorities of law enforcement. Some law enforcement agencies eventually have taken some of that paradigm shift back, choosing not to focus on petty drug crimes. In those cases, the paradigm shift is internally driven at the micro level by individual members of law enforcement leadership.

Paradigm shifts in law enforcement have traditionally been the result of leaders in the field reacting to changes in the external environment. The pace of change has not been as great as it has in education, a sign that the external and internal actors have less power to change the paradigm, or that the priorities of the external actors have not changed as much over time. However, in comparison to education there have been more internally-driven changes.
For example, law enforcement agencies recognized the potential for online crime and responded by shifting their priorities to the use of emerging technologies to assist with their duties, especially realizing the benefits of sharing information (Langerman, 2007). Such changes are typically driven by visionaries within the organization who are able to transcend the existing paradigms.

Works Cited:

Rogers, D. (2000). A paradigm shift: Technology integration for higher education in the new millennium. Educational Technology Review. Spring/Summer 2000, pp. 19-33

Helmi, a. (2001). An analysis on the impetus of online education: Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. The Internet and Higher Education. Vol. 4 (3-4) 243-253.

Langerman, a. (2007). A force united: Information sharing across law enforcement. Officer.com. Retrieved May 29, 2010….....

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